μύρρα

See also: Μύρρα

Ancient Greek

From a Semitic source akin to Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”).

μύρρᾱ • (múrrhā) f (genitive μύρρᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ μύρρᾱ; τῆς μύρρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μύρρᾱ hē múrrā	τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrā	αἱ μύρραι hai múrrai
Genitive	τῆς μύρρᾱς tês múrrās	τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrain	τῶν μυρρῶν tôn murrôn
Dative	τῇ μύρρᾳ tēî múrrāi	τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrain	ταῖς μύρραις taîs múrrais
Accusative	τὴν μύρρᾱν tḕn múrrān	τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrā	τᾱ̀ς μύρρᾱς tā̀s múrrās
Vocative	μύρρᾱ múrrā	μύρρᾱ múrrā	μύρραι múrrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“μύρρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μύρρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μύρρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

μύρρα • (mýrra) f