詞源

源頭不確定。可能與原始印歐語 (“潮濕，濕氣”)（像海上無數流動的波浪）或 (múrmēx, “螞蟻”)（像無數的蟲子）有關。^[1]

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形容詞

(mūríos) m (陰性，中性); 第一類/第二類

1. 無數的，無限的
   1. (詩歌) 無量的；眾多的
   2. (指時間) 無盡的
   3. (狀語，中性複數) 許多，極大
      1. (狀語，單數與格) 無限地
2. (限定數詞，以複數形式) 萬；古希臘語中能用單個詞語表達的最大數字

延伸閱讀

• “μυρίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυρίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μυρίος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μυρίος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 出版于1963
• “μυρίος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boundless idem, page 91.
  • countless idem, page 178.
  • huge idem, page 409.
  • illimitable idem, page 416.
  • immeasurable idem, page 417.
  • immense idem, page 417.
  • incalculable idem, page 427.
  • infinite idem, page 438.
  • limitless idem, page 492.
  • many idem, page 513.
  • measureless idem, page 521.
  • much idem, page 545.
  • multitudinous idem, page 546.
  • numberless idem, page 563.
  • unfathomable idem, page 918.
  • unlimited idem, page 924.
  • unmeasured idem, page 925.
  • unnumbered idem, page 926.
  • untold idem, page 935.
  • vast idem, page 945.