μηρός

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *mḗron, of uncertain ultimate origin. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Compare Latin membrum (“limb”) and Proto-Germanic *mimzą (“flesh”).

μηρός • (mērós) m (genitive μηροῦ); second declension

a thigh
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.190
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.231
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.125
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.6
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.27.11
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus 2
- 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Supplementary Fragments 11.6
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 135–136
1. (Septuagint Koine, in the plural) loins
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.26
2. (Septuagint Koine) side
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Kings 16.14
a thigh-bone, a femur, used especially of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.305
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 57
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 18.2.472
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.460
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1011
- 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 130
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace
(in the plural, generally) leg-bones
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.103

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“μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μηρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μηρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G3382 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
μηρός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- hip idem, page 400.
- thigh idem, page 866.

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μηρός • (mirós) m (plural μηροί)

declension of μηρός

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) •	μηροί •
genitive	μηρού •	μηρών •
accusative	μηρό •	μηρούς •
vocative	μηρέ •	μηροί •

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