μάνδρα

Some have proposed the Proto-Indo-European *mand- (“enclosure, stall”), with Sanskrit cognate मन्दुरा (mandurā, “stable; bed”).

μᾰ́νδρᾱ • (mándrā) f (genitive μᾰ́νδρᾱς); first declension

1. enclosed space
2. a fold, pen, barn, or stable for cattle or sometimes horses
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 106
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 4.61
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.648a
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 659.3
3. (figuratively) the bezel of a ring depicting oxen
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epigrams 21
   • Palatine Anthology 9.746
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 5.14

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• ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs)
• μάνδρευμα (mándreuma)

• Latin: mandra
  • Italian: mandria
• Turkish: mandıra

• μάνδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάνδρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μάνδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • stable idem, page 808.
  • stall idem, page 809.