μίτρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μίτρη (mítrē) — Ionic

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to bind”) or a loan from an Indo-Iranian source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mí.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/ → /ˈmi.tra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mí.tra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tra/

Noun

μίτρᾰ • (mítră) f (genitive μίτρᾱς); first declension

1. A metal guard worn round the waist
2. A maiden's girdle
3. (medicine) A surgical bandage
4. A headband, a snood
5. A victor's chaplet at the games
6. A kind of turban

Declension

First declension of ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ; τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́τρᾰ hē mĭ́tră	τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mĭ́trā	αἱ μῐ́τραι hai mĭ́trai
Genitive	τῆς μῐ́τρᾱς tês mĭ́trās	τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mĭ́train	τῶν μῐτρῶν tôn mĭtrôn
Dative	τῇ μῐ́τρᾳ têi mĭ́trāi	τοῖν μῐ́τραιν toîn mĭ́train	ταῖς μῐ́τραις taîs mĭ́trais
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́τρᾰν tḕn mĭ́trăn	τὼ μῐ́τρᾱ tṑ mĭ́trā	τᾱ̀ς μῐ́τρᾱς tā̀s mĭ́trās
Vocative	μῐ́τρᾰ mĭ́tră	μῐ́τρᾱ mĭ́trā	μῐ́τραι mĭ́trai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• αἰολομίτρης (aiolomítrēs)
• ἄμιτρος (ámitros)
• ἡμίμιτρον (hēmímitron)
• μιτραῖον (mitraîon)
• μιτρηφόρος (mitrēphóros)
• μιτρίον (mitríon)
• μιτρόομαι (mitróomai)
• μιτρώδης (mitrṓdēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: mitra
• → Old Georgian: მიტრაჲ (miṭray)
  • Georgian: მიტრა (miṭra)

References

• “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • head-dress idem, page 390.
  • kerchief idem, page 468.
  • snood idem, page 789.
  • turban idem, page 901.
• 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