μηρόν (meron)

μηρόν is an Ancient Greek form of μηρός, meaning “thigh”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 104 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.825: ὕψι μάλʼ ἐκ δονάκων ἀνεπάλμενος ἤλασε μηρὸν

Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa 3.4: … τῶνος αἱ πτέρυγες οὐκ ἦσαν συνερραμμέναι κάτωθεν, ἀλλʼ ἀνεπτύσσοντο καὶ συνανεγύμνουν ὅλον ἐν τῷ βαδίζειν τὸν μηρόν. καὶ σαφέστατα τὸ γινόμεοον εἴρηκε Σοφοκλῆς ἐν τούτοις· καὶ τὰν νέορτον, ἇς ἔτʼ ἄστολος χιτὼν θυραῖον ἀμφὶ μη …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 5.1.6: … ιόνυσος ἐπὶ τῆς τροφοῦ τῆς Νύσης καὶ τὴν χώραν Νυσαίαν· τὸ δὲ ὄρος ὅ τι περ πλησίον ἐστὶ τῆς πόλεως καὶ τοῦτο Μηρὸν ἐπωνόμασε Διόνυσος, ὅτι δὴ κατὰ τὸν μῦθον ἐν μηρῷ τῷ τοῦ Διὸς ηὐξήθη. καὶ ἐκ τούτου ἐλευθέραν τε οἰκοῦμεν τὴν …

All forms of μηρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.