myroblyte

English

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μυροβλύτης (muroblútēs, “myron-gushing”), from the ancient μῠ́ρ(ον) (múron) + -ο- (infix) + the Hellenistic verb βλύ(ζω) (blúzō) + -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪɹəblaɪt/
• Hyphenation: myr‧o‧blyte

Noun

myroblyte (plural myroblytes)

1. A saint whose relics or place of burial produce or are said to have produced the Oil of Saints ("an aromatic liquid with healing properties" or "holy water (very much like myrrh)") or the odour of sanctity.
   • 2003, Wendy R. Larson, “Narrative Threads: the Pienza Cope's Embroidered Vitae and Their Ritual Setting”, in Studies in Iconography, volume 24:

     The final scene on the cope shows both Catherine's martyrdom and two angels carrying her body to Mt. Sinai, which would remind viewers that Catherine was a myroblyte; [...]

   • 2015, Haruko Nawata Ward, “Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria”, in Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, Brill:

     This miracle signals that she has become a myroblyte, a healing saint.

Derived terms

• myroblytic

Translations

saint whose relics or place of burial produce or are said to have produced the Oil of Saints or the odour of sanctity

• Bulgarian: мироточи́в (mirotočív) (relational adjective)
• Czech: myrotočec m, myrotočivý (relational adjective)
• Danish: myroblyt (da) c
• Dutch: myrobliet m
• Finnish: mirhanvuodattaja
• French: myroblyte (fr) m or f
• Georgian: მირონმდინარე (mironmdinare)
• German: Myroblyt (de) m, Myroblytin f
• Greek: μυροβλύτης (el) m (myrovlýtis), μυροβλύτισσα (el) f (myrovlýtissa)
• Italian: miroblita (it) m or f
• Latin: myroblyta m
• Portuguese: miroblita m or f
• Romanian: izvorâtor de mir m, izvorâtoare de mir f
• Russian: мирото́чец (ru) m (mirotóčec), мироточи́вый (ru) (mirotočívyj) (relational adjective)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мироточац m, мироточиви (relational adjective)

  Roman: mirotočac m, mirotočivi (relational adjective)

• Slovak: myrotočec m, myrotočivý (relational adjective)
• Spanish: miroblita m or f
• Ukrainian: мироточець m (myrotočecʹ)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ʁɔ.blit/

Noun

myroblyte m or f by sense (plural myroblytes)

1. myroblyte
   • 1975, La géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin, volume 1, Paris: Institut français d'études byzantines:

     Au pied, était aménagée une petite ouverture, soi-disant pour l’écoulement de l’eau, en réalité pour la sortie du myron, qui coulait également de la lampe et de l’icône de la sainte, une myroblyte, tout comme saint Dèmètrios.

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Derived terms

• myroblytique