μιμαίκυλον
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- μεμαίκυλον (memaíkulon)
Etymology edit
A foreign word, undoubtedly from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation and the reduplication.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mi.mǎi̯.ky.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /miˈmɛ.ky.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈmɛ.cy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈme.cy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈme.ci.lon/
Noun edit
μῐμαίκῠλον • (mimaíkulon) n (genitive μῐμαικῠ́λου); second declension
- (botany) fruit of the strawberry tree
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mimaíkulon |
τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mimaikúlō |
τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tà mimaíkula | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῐμαικῠ́λου toû mimaikúlou |
τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mimaikúloin |
τῶν μῐμαικῠ́λων tôn mimaikúlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῐμαικῠ́λῳ tôi mimaikúlōi |
τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mimaikúloin |
τοῖς μῐμαικῠ́λοις toîs mimaikúlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mimaíkulon |
τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mimaikúlō |
τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tà mimaíkula | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῐμαίκῠλον mimaíkulon |
μῐμαικῠ́λω mimaikúlō |
μῐμαίκῠλᾰ mimaíkula | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- Greek: μεμαίντζουλο n (memaíntzoulo, “fruit of the strawberry tree”) (dialectal, Euboea)
Further reading edit
- “μιμαίκυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μιμαίκυλον 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