First used by the poet Fulke Greville, possibly as ananagram ofMary.
Myra
- A femalegiven name originating as a coinage.
1633,Fulke Greville,Cælica, Sonnet XXVIII:My Saint is dear to me, /Myra herself is she, / She fair and true. /Myra that knows to move / Passions of love with love: / Fortune, Adieu.
Borrowed fromAncient GreekΜύρα(Múra).
Myra n pl (genitiveMyrōrum);second declension
- A town ofLycia situated on ahill
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, plural only.
- “Myra”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Myra inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.