μύκης
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Traditionally taken to be a formation in -ητ- from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”), the same root of Latin mūcus (“snivel”); for the development of meaning, compare Proto-Slavic *glìva (“fungus”) beside Lithuanian gléivės (“slime”), from *gleh₁y- (“to be smeary”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.kɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ke̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.cis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.cis/
Noun edit
μῠ́κης • (múkēs) m (genitive μῠ́κητος); third declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠ́κης ho múkēs |
τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte |
οἱ μῠ́κητες hoi múkētes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́κητος toû múkētos |
τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin |
τῶν μῠκήτων tôn mukḗtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠ́κητῐ tôi múkēti |
τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin |
τοῖς μῠ́κησῐ / μῠ́κησῐν toîs múkēsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠ́κητᾰ tòn múkēta |
τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte |
τοὺς μῠ́κητᾰς toùs múkētas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́κης múkēs |
μῠ́κητε múkēte |
μῠ́κητες múkētes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- μῠκήτῐνος (mukḗtinos)
Descendants edit
- → Italian: micete
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܩܝܛܐ, ܡܝܘܩܝܛܐܣ
- Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)
References edit
Further reading edit
- “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Furnée, Edzard J. (1972) “μύκης”, in Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen. Mit einem Appendix über den Vokalismus, Den Haag: Mouton, pages 298–99, rejecting a connection to μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to snort, blow one's nose”) (from the same “slime” root), on an assumed basic meaning “prominence, extremity” behind "stump of an olive tree", by comparison with μύσκλοι (múskloi, “stalks of dried up fig trees”) he claims Pre-Greek origin.
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fungus idem, page 350.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύκης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 977, repeats Furnée’s claim
- μύκης - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.