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μιαρός

miaros

stained, defiled with blood, dies nefastus

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μῐᾰρός · miaros — LSJ

stained

stained with blood, περὶ δʼ αἷμα νένιπται, οὐδέ ποθι μιαρός Il. 24.420.

2 defiled with blood, dies nefastus, actions resulting in ritual impurity

defiled with blood, Κιθαιρών E. Ba. 1384 (anap.); μ. ἡμέραι certain days in the month Anthesterion, on which expiatory libations (χοαί) were offered to the dead, Hsch.; at Rome, ἡμέρα μ., = dies nefastus, D.C. 51.19; μιαρά, τά, actions resulting in ritual impurity, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.157 (Cyrene).

3 defiled, polluted, unclean

generally, defiled, polluted, μ. καὶ ἄναγνος Antipho 2.1.10, cf. Pl. Lg. 716e; of animals, unclean, ὗν δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι μιαρὸν ἥγηνται θηρίον εἶναι Hdt. 2.47; θάλασσα ὕδωρ -ώτατον Heraclit. 61.

4 abominable, foul, repulsive, blackguard, coarse, brutal

in moral sense, abominable, foul, ὦ μ. ἦθος S. Ant. 746; repulsive to the moral sense, Arist. Po. 1452b36, al.: freq. in Ar. as a term of reproach, blackguard, μ. κεφαλή Ach. 285, cf. 282; μιαρώτατος ib. 182; μ. φωνή coarse, brutal voice, Eq. 218, cf. S. Tr. 987 (anap.); μιαρώτατος περὶ τὸν δῆμον Ar. Eq. 831; μ. τε καὶ ὀλιγαρχικούς Pl. R. 562d. Adv. -ρῶς Ar. Eq. 800; οὕτω φανερῶς καὶ μ. D. 21.69.

5 you rogue

ὦ μιαρέ you rogue, in a coaxing sense, Pl. Phdr. 236e, al.

6

= μάχλος, γύναικες μιαρώταται Alc. 39.

7 ugly

physically ugly, γυναῖκα ὀφθῆναι μ. X.Eph. 3.12.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μιαρός (scan p. 1002; entry #4086).

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