μίσχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Seemingly first agricultural then made botanical by Theophrastus. μίσκαιος (mískaios, “garden”) with Lithuanian mìškas (“wood, forest”) does not give a likely meaning connection, while μίσκος (mískos, “husk, pod”) is very similar. While Pre-Greek origin has been claimed, the form and variation σχ/σκ looks kind of Semitic, compare μασχάλη (maskhálē, “axil, hollow at the base of a shoot; branch, young palm twig”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mís.kʰos/ → /ˈmis.xos/ → /ˈmis.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mís.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.xos/

Noun

μῐ́σχος • (mískhos) m (genitive μῐ́σχου); second declension

1. (botany) stalk of leaves or fruit, petiole
2. (in Thessaly) kind of spade or hoe

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῐ́σχος; τοῦ μῐ́σχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῐ́σχος ho mískhos	τὼ μῐ́σχω tṑ mískhō	οἱ μῐ́σχοι hoi mískhoi
Genitive	τοῦ μῐ́σχου toû mískhou	τοῖν μῐ́σχοιν toîn mískhoin	τῶν μῐ́σχων tôn mískhōn
Dative	τῷ μῐ́σχῳ tôi mískhōi	τοῖν μῐ́σχοιν toîn mískhoin	τοῖς μῐ́σχοις toîs mískhois
Accusative	τὸν μῐ́σχον tòn mískhon	τὼ μῐ́σχω tṑ mískhō	τοὺς μῐ́σχους toùs mískhous
Vocative	μῐ́σχε mískhe	μῐ́σχω mískhō	μῐ́σχοι mískhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄμῐσχος (ámiskhos)

Descendants

• Greek: μίσχος (míschos)

Further reading

• “μίσχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μίσχος 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, page 958

Greek

Noun

μίσχος • (míschos) m (plural μίσχοι)

1. (botany) petiole, stalk, stem (of plant)

Declension

Declension of μίσχος

	singular	plural
nominative	μίσχος •	μίσχοι •
genitive	μίσχου •	μίσχων •
accusative	μίσχο •	μίσχους •
vocative	μίσχε •	μίσχοι •

Coordinate terms

• κοτσάνι m (kotsáni, “leaf stem, peduncle”)
• τσούνι n (tsoúni, “stem”, colloquial)