μηρός, ὁ,
thigh, φάσγανον ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ drawing his sword from his thigh, where it hung, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.190, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.231, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηρὼ πληξάμενος, in sign of vehement agitation, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.125; ἐπαίσατο τὸν μηρόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.3.6; τύπτειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.27.11; τὸν μ. ἀλοῆσαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 2 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ μηρόν τινος beside it, [[ LXX.2Ki.16.14: in _plural_, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 11.6, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 135, 136. ] LXX+7th c.BC+]
__2 thigh-bone, κατ᾽ ἰσχίον, ἔνθα τε μηρὸς ἰσχίῳ ἐνστρέφεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.305, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 57, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).472] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of thigh-bones with flesh offered in sacrifice, μηροὺς ἐξέταμον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.460, +others (compare μηρία); καταρρυεῖς μ. καλυπτῆς ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1011; θεοῖσι μηρὸν θύετε 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 130; τίθεσο τὼ μηρὼ λαβών 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1039. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 generally, leg-bones, κάμηλος ἐν τοῖσι ὀπισθίοισι σκέλεσι ἔχει τέσσερας μηροὺς καὶ γούνατα τέσσερα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. OIr. mīr 'piece', Latin membrum, from mēmsro-, Sanskrit māmsám 'meat'.)