μύσος

See also: Μυσός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word recalls μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) but remains without certain etymology. Pokorny compares Irish mosach (“shaggy, bristly”), Low German mussig (“dirty”) and Russian му́слить (múslitʹ, “to suck, beslaver”). The group has been compared with the root of μαδάω (madáō, “to be moist”), but this remains hypothetical.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mý.sos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sos/

Noun

μύσος • (músos) n (genitive μύσους); third declension

uncleanness, defilement, pollution

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ μῠ́σος; τοῦ μῠ́σους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῠ́σος tò mŭ́sos	τὼ μῠ́σει tṑ mŭ́sei	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ση tằ mŭ́sē
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́σους toû mŭ́sous	τοῖν μῠσοῖν toîn mŭsoîn	τῶν μῠσῶν tôn mŭsôn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́σει tōî mŭ́sei	τοῖν μῠσοῖν toîn mŭsoîn	τοῖς μῠ́σεσῐ / μῠ́σεσῐν toîs mŭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ μῠ́σος tò mŭ́sos	τὼ μῠ́σει tṑ mŭ́sei	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ση tằ mŭ́sē
Vocative	μῠ́σος mŭ́sos	μῠ́σει mŭ́sei	μῠ́ση mŭ́sē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μύσαγμα (músagma)
μυσάζω (musázō)
μυσαρία (musaría)
μυσαρός (musarós)
μυσάρχης (musárkhēs)
μυσαρωπός (musarōpós)
μυσάττομαι (musáttomai)
μυσαχθής (musakhthḗs)
μυσαχνός (musakhnós)
μύσαχος (músakhos)
μυσητός (musētós)

References

“μύσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μύσος 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