μαστόδετον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From μαστός (mastós, “breast”) + μᾰστό(ς) (mastó(s)) + -δετον, neuter of δετός (detós), verbal adjective of δέω (déō, “to bind, to tie, to fetter”).
Pronunciation edit
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /masˈto.de.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /masˈto.ðe.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /masˈto.ðe.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /masˈto.ðe.ton/
Noun edit
μᾰστόδετον • (mastódeton) n (genitive μᾰστοδέτου); second declension (Koine)
- (hapax) breastband
- Synonym: μαστόδεσμος (mastódesmos)
- Anthologia Graeca, 6 201, (According to the poet, a pregnant woman offered her personal objects to the temple of Artemis after the painless childbirth she had. Among them she also offered her bra.):@perseus.tufts.edu & @anthologiagraeca.org
- καὶ τὰ περὶ στέρνοις ἀγλαὰ μαστόδετα,
- kaì tà perì stérnois aglaà mastódeta,
- and the beautiful bra that surrounds the sternum,
- καὶ τὰ περὶ στέρνοις ἀγλαὰ μαστόδετα,
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | τὸ μᾰστόδετον tò mastódeton |
τὼ μᾰστοδέτω tṑ mastodétō |
τᾰ̀ μᾰστόδετᾰ tà mastódeta |
Genitive | τοῦ μᾰστοδέτου toû mastodétou |
τοῖν μᾰστοδέτοιν toîn mastodétoin |
τῶν μᾰστοδέτων tôn mastodétōn |
Dative | τῷ μᾰστοδέτῳ tôi mastodétōi |
τοῖν μᾰστοδέτοιν toîn mastodétoin |
τοῖς μᾰστοδέτοις toîs mastodétois |
Accusative | τὸ μᾰστόδετον tò mastódeton |
τὼ μᾰστοδέτω tṑ mastodétō |
τᾰ̀ μᾰστόδετᾰ tà mastódeta |
Vocative | μᾰστόδετον mastódeton |
μᾰστοδέτω mastodétō |
μᾰστόδετᾰ mastódeta |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “μαστόδετον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαστόδετον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.