myrrha

myrrha (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) myrrh

• American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1919)

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmirhɑ/, [ˈmirhɑ̝]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmirːɑ/, [ˈmirːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irhɑ

myrrha (rare)

1. Alternative form of mirha

• murra, myrra

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.ra/, [ˈmʏrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmir.ra/, [ˈmirːä]

myrrha f (genitive myrrhae); first declension

1. Alternative form of murra

First-declension noun.

• “myrrha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• myrrha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “myrrha”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “myrrha”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

myrrha f (usually uncountable, plural myrrhas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mirra.

myrrha f (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of mirra.