μυοσωτίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῦς (mûs, “mouse”) +‎ οὖς (oûs, “ear”). Compare ὠτίς (ōtís, “bustard”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /my.o.sɔː.tís/ → /my.o.soˈtis/ → /mi.o.soˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /my.o.sɔː.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.o.soˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.o.soˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.o.soˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.o.soˈtis/

Noun

μῠοσωτῐ́ς • (muosōtís) f (genitive μῠοσωτῐ́δος); third declension

1. German madwort (Asperugo procumbens)
2. forget-me-not (plant of the genus Myosotis)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ μῠοσωτῐ́ς; τῆς μῠοσωτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῠοσωτῐ́ς hē muosōtís	τὼ μῠοσωτῐ́δε tṑ muosōtíde	αἱ μῠοσωτῐ́δες hai muosōtídes
Genitive	τῆς μῠοσωτῐ́δος tês muosōtídos	τοῖν μῠοσωτῐ́δοιν toîn muosōtídoin	τῶν μῠοσωτῐ́δων tôn muosōtídōn
Dative	τῇ μῠοσωτῐ́δῐ têi muosōtídi	τοῖν μῠοσωτῐ́δοιν toîn muosōtídoin	ταῖς μῠοσωτῐ́σῐ / μῠοσωτῐ́σῐν taîs muosōtísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μῠοσωτῐ́δᾰ tḕn muosōtída	τὼ μῠοσωτῐ́δε tṑ muosōtíde	τᾱ̀ς μῠοσωτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s muosōtídas
Vocative	μῠοσωτῐ́ς muosōtís	μῠοσωτῐ́δε muosōtíde	μῠοσωτῐ́δες muosōtídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: myosōtis
  • → Translingual: Myosotis

References

• “μυοσωτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μυοσωτίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette