μύσταξ
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
According to Beekes, both the variants lead to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýs.taks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmys.taks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.taks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.taks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmis.taks/
Noun edit
μύστᾰξ • (mústax) m (genitive μύστᾰκος); third declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠ́στᾰξ ho mústax |
τὼ μῠ́στᾰκε tṑ mústake |
οἱ μῠ́στᾰκες hoi mústakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́στᾰκος toû mústakos |
τοῖν μῠστᾰ́κοιν toîn mustákoin |
τῶν μῠστᾰ́κων tôn mustákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠ́στᾰκῐ tôi mústaki |
τοῖν μῠστᾰ́κοιν toîn mustákoin |
τοῖς μῠ́στᾰξῐ / μῠ́στᾰξῐν toîs mústaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠ́στᾰκᾰ tòn mústaka |
τὼ μῠ́στᾰκε tṑ mústake |
τοὺς μῠ́στᾰκᾰς toùs mústakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́στᾰξ mústax |
μῠ́στᾰκε mústake |
μῠ́στᾰκες mústakes | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- ⇒ Byzantine Greek: μουστάκιον (moustákion)
- Greek: μουστάκι (moustáki)
- Pontic Greek: μουστάκιν (moustákin), μουστάκι (moustáki), μουστάκ' (mousták')
- → Medieval Latin: mustācium (see there for further descendants)
- → Sicilian: mustacchiu
- → Italian: mustacchio
- → English: mustachio
- → Italian: mustacchio
- →⇒ English: mystacial
- →⇒ French: mystaciale
References edit
- “μύσταξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύσταξ 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