mysticus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.ti.kus/, [ˈmʏs̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.ti.kus/, [ˈmist̪ikus]

Adjective

mysticus (feminine mystica, neuter mysticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or belonging to secret rites or mysteries.
2. mystic, mystical

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mysticus	mystica	mysticum		mysticī	mysticae	mystica
Genitive	mysticī	mysticae	mysticī		mysticōrum	mysticārum	mysticōrum
Dative	mysticō		mysticō		mysticīs
Accusative	mysticum	mysticam	mysticum		mysticōs	mysticās	mystica
Ablative	mysticō	mysticā	mysticō		mysticīs
Vocative	mystice	mystica	mysticum		mysticī	mysticae	mystica

Derived terms

• mystica
• mysticē

Descendants

• Catalan: místic
• Galician: místico
• → Irish: misteach
• Italian: mistico
• Occitan: mistic
• Old French: mystique
  • French: mystique
    • → English: mystique
  • English: mystic
• Portuguese: místico
• Romanian: mistic
• Spanish: místico
• → Finnish: mystiikka
• → Swedish: mystik

References

• “mysticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mysticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mysticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mysticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.