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μίτρα

mitra

girdle bound with metal

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What it meant

1. μίτρα · mitra — Beekes

μίτρα [f.] ‘girdle bound with metal’ (IL), ‘maiden’s girdle’ (Theoc., A. R, Call.), ‘fillet, diadem’ (Alcm., Hdt., E., Ar., Call.), ‘victor’s chaplet, wreath’ (Pi.). «Ὁ VAR lon. -pn [f.}. *COMP μιτρη-φόρος (also -o-g-) ‘bearing a ut.’ (Hdt, Plu), αἰολο-μίτρης ‘with glittering girdle’ (E 707, Theoc.), on the ending -¢ see Schwyzer: 451); ἄ-μιτρος ‘without girdle’ (Call.). DER μιτρίον (gloss.), μιτρώδης ‘like a μ᾽ … — [Beekes, s.v. μίτρα, p. 1010]

2. μίτρα · mitra — LSJ

2 maidenʼs girdle

in later Poets, = ζώνη, maidenʼs girdle, Theoc. 27.54 [μίτρᾰν cj., μικράν codd.], Call. Aet. 3.1.45 [Fr. 75.45 Pf.], Mosch. 2.73, etc.; μ. λῦσαι A.R. 1.288; λύσασθαι, ἀναλύεσθαι, Call. Jov. 21, Del. 222; παρθένον ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην Epigr.Gr. 319; also, = στρόφιον, τὴν μ. ἣ μαστοὺς ἐφίλησε Call. Epigr. 39, cf. A.R. 3.867, etc.

3 girdle worn by wrestlers

girdle worn by wrestlers, AP 15.44.

4 surgical bandage

surgical bandage, Q.S. 4.213.

II headband, snood

headband, snood, μ. Λυδία νεανίδων . . ἄγαλμα Alcm. 23.67, cf. E. Ba. 833, Hec. 924 (lyr.), Ar. Th. 257.

2 victorʼs chaplet

victorʼs chaplet at the games, Pi. O. 9.84 (pl.), I. 5(4).62: metaph., Λυδία μίτρα καναχηδὰ πεποικιλμένα, of an ode in the Lydian mode, Id. N. 8.15.

3 headband

headband as badge of rank at the Ptolemaic court, Arch.Pap. 1.220.

4 oriental head-dress, turban, diadem

oriental head-dress, perh. a kind of turban, Hdt. 1.195, 7.90, Duris 14 J., etc.; as a mark of effeminacy, Ar. Th. 941; diadem, Call. Del. 166.

5 head-dress

head-dress of the priest of Heracles at Cos, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.304c; of the Jewish high-priest, LXX Ex. 29.6, al.

III

= ἐπιδιδυμίς, Hp. ap. Gal. 19.123 (where μήτρη) . [ῐ by nature, E. ll. cc., etc.; ῑ by position in Hom.]

3. Μίτρα · Mitra — LSJ

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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. μίτρα (scan p. 1010; entry #4121). Root candidates: *mei-.

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