μουστάκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip, mustache”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix) with altered first vowel.
Pronunciation
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /musˈta.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /musˈta.ci.on/
Noun
μουστάκιον • (moustákion) n (genitive μουστακίου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μουστάκιον tò moustákion |
τᾰ̀ μουστάκιᾰ tằ moustákiă |
| Genitive | τοῦ μουστακίου toû moustakíou |
τῶν μουστακίων tôn moustakíōn |
| Dative | τῷ μουστακίῳ tōî moustakíōi |
τοῖς μουστακίοις toîs moustakíois |
| Accusative | τὸ μουστάκιον tò moustákion |
τᾰ̀ μουστάκιᾰ tằ moustákiă |
| Vocative | μουστάκιον moustákion |
μουστάκιᾰ moustákiă |
Descendants
- Greek: μουστάκι (moustáki)
- Pontic Greek: μουστάκιν (moustákin), μουστάκι (moustáki), μουστάκ’ (mousták’)
- → Laz: მუსტაკი (musťaǩi), მუსტაჭი (musťaç̌i)
- →? Italian: mustacchio
- → English: mustachio
- →? Sicilian: mustacchiu
- →? Venetan: mustacchio
- → Medieval Latin: mustācium (see there for further descendants)
See also
- μουστάκια n pl (moustákia, “a kind of cake”) (etymologically unrelated)
Further reading
- μουστάκιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μουστάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press