Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μίθρης ‎(Míthrēs)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /míθras/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /míθras/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /míθɾas/

Proper noun

Μίθρᾱς • ‎(Míthrās) m ‎(genitive Μίθρου); first declension

1. Greek form of Iranian Mithra (e.g. Herodotus Histories I,131; Plutarch, Isis and Osiris 46.7)
2. Greek name of the figures of various syncretic Helleno-Zoroastrian cults of Asia Minor (100 BC-200 AD)
3. Greek form of Latin Mithras, cult figure of the Roman mystery religion that flourished between 100 and 400 AD.

Inflection

Derived terms

• Μιθραῖον ‎(Mithraîon)
• Μιθράκανα ‎(Mithrákana)
• Μιθριακός ‎(Mithriakós)

Descendants

• Latin: Mithras
  • English: Mithras

References

• Μίθρας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017