mistic

See also: místic

English edit

Mistic

Etymology edit

From Spanish místico. Compare Catalan místic, French mistique, Italian mistico, and Ottoman Turkish مستقو (mistiko). These all refer to sailing ships of the Mediterranean, but not necessarily to the same kind of ship. The number of masts is variously two or three and the sails are lateen or square. The New English Dictionary^[1] traces the origin to an Arabic word misṭeḥ "flat surface" (compare مُسَطَّح (musaṭṭaḥ)) but Kahane et al.^[2] disagree.

Pronunciation edit

Rhymes: -ɪstɪk

Homophone: mystic

Noun edit

mistic (plural mistics)

A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean, rigged partly like a xebec and partly like a felucca.

Synonyms edit

mistico

References edit

^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Mistic”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 538, column 3.
^ Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mistic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Occitan edit

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

mistic m (feminine singular mistica, masculine plural mistics, feminine plural misticas)

mystical

Related terms edit

misticisme

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French mystique.

Adjective edit

mistic m or n (feminine singular mistică, masculine plural mistici, feminine and neuter plural mistice)

mystical

Declension edit

Declension of mistic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	mistic		mistică	mistici	mistice
nominative/ accusative	definite	misticul		mistica	misticii	misticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	mistic		mistice	mistici	mistice
genitive/ dative	definite	misticului		misticei	misticilor	misticelor

Related terms edit

[1] James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Mistic”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 538, column 3.

[2] Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois

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