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 múrrhā	τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrhā	αἱ μύρραι hai múrrhai
Genitive	τῆς μύρρᾱς tês múrrhās	τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrhain	τῶν μυρρῶν tôn murrhôn
Dative	τῇ μύρρᾳ têi múrrhāi	τοῖν μύρραιν toîn múrrhain	ταῖς μύρραις taîs múrrhais
Accusative	τὴν μύρρᾱν tḕn múrrhān	τὼ μύρρᾱ tṑ múrrhā	τᾱ̀ς μύρρᾱς tā̀s múrrhās
Vocative	μύρρᾱ múrrhā	μύρρᾱ múrrhā	μύρραι múrrhai
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

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