μυνδός

See also: Μύνδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe related to Armenian մունջ (munǰ, “mute”) and thus from Proto-Indo-European *mundyo- and cognate with Ancient Greek μύδος (múdos), μυκός (mukós), μυττός (muttós, “dumb”), Latin mutus and Sanskrit मूक (mūka, “dumb”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myn.dós/ → /mynˈdos/ → /minˈdos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myn.dós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mynˈdos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mynˈdos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mynˈdos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /minˈdos/

Adjective

μῠνδός • (mundós) m or f (neuter μῠνδόν); second declension

1. mute, dumb

   Synonyms: ἄφωνος (áphōnos), ἐνεός (eneós), κωφός (kōphós), μύρκος (múrkos)

Declension

Second declension of μῠνδός; μῠνδόν (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		μῠνδός mundós	μῠνδόν mundón		μῠνδώ mundṓ	μῠνδώ mundṓ		μῠνδοί mundoí	μῠνδᾰ́ mundá
Genitive		μῠνδοῦ mundoû	μῠνδοῦ mundoû		μῠνδοῖν mundoîn	μῠνδοῖν mundoîn		μῠνδῶν mundôn	μῠνδῶν mundôn
Dative		μῠνδῷ mundôi	μῠνδῷ mundôi		μῠνδοῖν mundoîn	μῠνδοῖν mundoîn		μῠνδοῖς mundoîs	μῠνδοῖς mundoîs
Accusative		μῠνδόν mundón	μῠνδόν mundón		μῠνδώ mundṓ	μῠνδώ mundṓ		μῠνδούς mundoús	μῠνδᾰ́ mundá
Vocative		μῠνδέ mundé	μῠνδόν mundón		μῠνδώ mundṓ	μῠνδώ mundṓ		μῠνδοί mundoí	μῠνδᾰ́ mundá
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		μῠνδῶς mundôs			μῠνδότερος mundóteros			μῠνδότᾰτος mundótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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