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σμύρνης (smyrnes)

σμύρνης is an Ancient Greek form of σμύρνα, meaning “myrrh”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 89: σμύρνης δʼ ἀνύδρου καπνὸς εἰς ὀρόφους

Plutarch, Sertorius 1.3: … μπεσόντος ἀποκλεῖσαι ταχὺ τῶν Ἰλιέων μὴ δυνηθέντων δυεῖν δὲ ὁμωνύμων τοῖς εὐωδεστάτοις φυτοῖς πόλεων, Ἴου καὶ Σμύρνης, τὸν ποιητὴν Ὅμηρον ἐι ᾗ μὲν γενέσθαι λέγουσιν, ἐν ᾗ δὲ ἀποθανεῖν,

All forms of σμύρνα (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.