μιμαίκυλον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μεμαίκυλον (memaíkulon)
Etymology
A foreign word, undoubtedly from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation and the reduplication.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mi.mǎi̯.ky.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /miˈmɛ.ky.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈmɛ.cy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈme.cy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈme.ci.lon/
Noun
μῐμαίκῠλον • (mĭmaíkŭlon) n (genitive μῐμαικῠ́λου); second declension
- (botany) fruit of the strawberry tree
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mĭmaíkŭlon |
τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mĭmaikŭ́lō |
τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tằ mĭmaíkŭlă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μῐμαικῠ́λου toû mĭmaikŭ́lou |
τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mĭmaikŭ́loin |
τῶν μῐμαικῠ́λων tôn mĭmaikŭ́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μῐμαικῠ́λῳ tōî mĭmaikŭ́lōi |
τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mĭmaikŭ́loin |
τοῖς μῐμαικῠ́λοις toîs mĭmaikŭ́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mĭmaíkŭlon |
τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mĭmaikŭ́lō |
τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tằ mĭmaíkŭlă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῐμαίκῠλον mĭmaíkŭlon |
μῐμαικῠ́λω mĭmaikŭ́lō |
μῐμαίκῠλᾰ mĭmaíkŭlă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: μεμαίντζουλο n (memaíntzoulo, “fruit of the strawberry tree”) (dialectal, Euboea)
Further reading
- “μιμαίκυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μιμαίκυλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN