μύσσομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *muťťomai, from Proto-Indo-European *muk-yé-tor, a present tense of *(s)mewk- (“to let loose, release”); compare Sanskrit मुच्यते (mucyate, “to be set free, released”) and more distantly ēmungō (“to wipe or blow the nose”) and Irish smuga (“mucus, snot”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýs.so.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmys.so.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.so.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.so.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.so.me/
Verb
μύσσομαι • (mússomai)
Conjugation
Present: μῠ́σσομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle | indicative | μῠ́σσομαι | μῠ́σσῃ / μῠ́σσει | μῠ́σσεται | μῠ́σσεσθον | μῠ́σσεσθον | μῠσσόμεθᾰ | μῠ́σσεσθε | μῠ́σσονται | ||||
| subjunctive | μῠ́σσωμαι | μῠ́σσῃ | μῠ́σσηται | μῠ́σσησθον | μῠ́σσησθον | μῠσσώμεθᾰ | μῠ́σσησθε | μῠ́σσωνται | |||||
| optative | μῠσσοίμην | μῠ́σσοιο | μῠ́σσοιτο | μῠ́σσοισθον | μῠσσοίσθην | μῠσσοίμεθᾰ | μῠ́σσοισθε | μῠ́σσοιντο | |||||
| imperative | μῠ́σσου | μῠσσέσθω | μῠ́σσεσθον | μῠσσέσθων | μῠ́σσεσθε | μῠσσέσθων | |||||||
| infinitive | μῠ́σσεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | μῠσσόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | μῠσσομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | μῠσσόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Imperfect: ἐμῠσσόμην
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle | indicative | ἐμῠσσόμην | ἐμῠ́σσου | ἐμῠ́σσετο | ἐμῠ́σσεσθον | ἐμῠσσέσθην | ἐμῠσσόμεθᾰ | ἐμῠ́σσεσθε | ἐμῠ́σσοντο | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Future: μῠ́ξομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle | indicative | μῠ́ξομαι | μῠ́ξῃ / μῠ́ξει | μῠ́ξεται | μῠ́ξεσθον | μῠ́ξεσθον | μῠξόμεθᾰ | μῠ́ξεσθε | μῠ́ξονται | ||||
| optative | μῠξοίμην | μῠ́ξοιο | μῠ́ξοιτο | μῠ́ξοισθον | μῠξοίσθην | μῠξοίμεθᾰ | μῠ́ξοισθε | μῠ́ξοιντο | |||||
| middle | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | μῠ́ξεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | μῠξόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | μῠξομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | μῠξόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
- ἀπομύσσω (apomússō)
- ἐκμύσσομαι (ekmússomai)
Related terms
Further reading
- μύσσομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύσσομαι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μύσσομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press