μύστρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same Pre-Greek root of μυστίλη (mustílē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýs.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmys.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmis.tron/
Noun
μύστρον • (mústron) n (genitive μύστρου); second declension
- spoon, spoonful
- kind of unit of measure
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μῠ́στρον tò mŭ́stron |
τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mŭ́strō |
τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tằ mŭ́stră | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́στρου toû mŭ́strou |
τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mŭ́stroin |
τῶν μῠ́στρων tôn mŭ́strōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μῠ́στρῳ tōî mŭ́strōi |
τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mŭ́stroin |
τοῖς μῠ́στροις toîs mŭ́strois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μῠ́στρον tò mŭ́stron |
τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mŭ́strō |
τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tằ mŭ́stră | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῠ́στρον mŭ́stron |
μῠ́στρω mŭ́strō |
μῠ́στρᾰ mŭ́stră | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: mystrum
Further reading
- “μύστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύστρον 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