μαστός

• μαζός (mazós) — Ionic, Epic
• μασδός (masdós) — Doric
• μασθός (masthós)

Perhaps related to μαδάω (madáō, “to be moist”). If so, then from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, glossy, fat, well-fed”).

μᾰστός • (măstós) m (genitive μᾰστοῦ); second declension

1. (anatomy) (especially of women) The human breast.
   1. (zootomy, rarely) (of animals) An udder.
   2. The breast. (of all mammals, in general)
2. (figurative) Any round, breast-shaped object:
   1. A round hill or knoll.
   2. A round piece of wool fastened to the edge of nets.
   3. (among the Paphians) A breast-shaped cup.

All usage contradicts the statement of the Grammarians that μαζός (mazós) is the man's breast, μαστός (mastós) the woman's.

• → English: mastos

• “μαστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μαστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μαστός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3149 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bosom idem, page 90.
  • breast idem, page 96.
  • hillock idem, page 400.
  • hummock idem, page 410.
  • knoll idem, page 471.
  • nipple idem, page 558.
  • pap idem, page 591.
  • teat idem, page 859.
  • udder idem, page 905.

From Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós).

• IPA^(key): /maˈstos/
• Hyphenation: μα‧στός

μαστός • (mastós) m (plural μαστοί)

1. (anatomy) breast (mammary gland)
2. (zoology) udder

• (breast): στήθος m (stíthos), βυζί n (vyzí) (colloquial, vulgar)