different between myrrh vs myrrhic

English

Etymology

From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek ????? (múrrha), from Semitic. Compare Arabic ????? (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew ??? \ ???? (m?r, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”). Compare ????? : maror.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [m??(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [m?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: murr, murre

Noun

myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)

1. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)

     The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.

2. (Scotland) The herb chervil.

Derived terms

• myrrhic
• myrrhine
• myrrhlike

Translations

Further reading

• myrrh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

myrrh +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???ik/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??ik/
• Hyphenation: myrrh?ic

Adjective

myrrhic (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
2. (poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
   • 1916, Emanuel Morgan [pseudonym; Witter Brynner], “The Locust-tree”, in Anne Knish [pseudonym; Arthur Davison Ficke]; Emanuel Morgan, Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, OCLC 10672070, archived from the original on 22 July 2012, opus 45:

     All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:myrrhic.

Related terms

• myrrh
• myrrhic acid
• myrrhine

Translations