μύκης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include Latin mucus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.kɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.kes/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.kis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.cis/
Noun
μῠ́κης • (múkēs) m (genitive μῠ́κητος); third declension
- A mushroom or other fungus.
- Any mushroom-shaped object.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μῠ́κης ho múkēs |
τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte |
οἱ μῠ́κητες hoi múkētes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́κητος toû múkētos |
τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin |
τῶν μῠκήτων tôn mukḗtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μῠ́κητῐ tôi múkēti |
τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin |
τοῖς μῠ́κησῐ(ν) toîs múkēsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μῠ́κητᾰ tòn múkēta |
τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte |
τοὺς μῠ́κητᾰς toùs múkētas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῠ́κης múkēs |
μῠ́κητε múkēte |
μῠ́κητες múkētes | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)
References
- μύκης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύκης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύκης 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.
- fungus idem, page 350.
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