μυκτήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”) + -τήρ (-tḗr). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”), the same root of μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), μύξα (múxa, “mucus, slime”) and Latin mucus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /myk.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mykˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mykˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mykˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mikˈtir/
Noun
μῠκτήρ • (muktḗr) m (genitive μῠκτῆρος); third declension
- (in the plural) nostril
- Synonym: ῥώθων (rhṓthōn)
- nozzle of a lamp
- (zoology) elephant's trunk
- (zoology) funnel of the cuttlefish
- (figuratively) sneerer, scorner
- (in the abstract) sarcasm, raillery
Declension
Third declension of ὁ μῠκτήρ; τοῦ μῠκτῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠκτήρ ho muktḗr | τὼ μῠκτῆρε tṑ muktêre | οἱ μῠκτῆρες hoi muktêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠκτῆρος toû muktêros | τοῖν μῠκτήροιν toîn muktḗroin | τῶν μῠκτήρων tôn muktḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠκτῆρῐ tôi muktêri | τοῖν μῠκτήροιν toîn muktḗroin | τοῖς μῠκτῆρσῐ / μῠκτῆρσῐν toîs muktêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠκτῆρᾰ tòn muktêra | τὼ μῠκτῆρε tṑ muktêre | τοὺς μῠκτῆρᾰς toùs muktêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠκτήρ muktḗr | μῠκτῆρε muktêre | μῠκτῆρες muktêres | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μυκτηρίζω (muktērízō)
- μυκτήρισμα (muktḗrisma)
- μυκτηρισμός (muktērismós)
- μυκτηριστής (muktēristḗs)
- μυκτηρόθεν (muktēróthen)
- μυκτηρόκομπος (muktērókompos)
Descendants
- Greek: μυκτήρ (myktír)
Further reading
- “μυκτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυκτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυκτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr), from μύσσομαι (mússomai, “I blow my nose”). Related to μύξα (múxa, “snot, booger”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈktir/
- Hyphenation: μυ‧κτήρ
Noun
μυκτήρ • (myktír) m (plural μυκτήρες)
- (anatomy, formal, archaic, Katharevousa) nostril (either of the two orifices located on the nose)
Declension
declension of μυκτήρ
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | μυκτήρ • | μυκτήρες • |
genitive | μυκτήρος • | μυκτήρων • |
accusative | μυκτήρ • | μυκτήρες • |
vocative | μυκτήρ • | μυκτήρες • |
Synonyms
- ρουθούνι n (routhoúni, “nostril”) (everyday term)
Related terms
- μυκτηρίζω (myktirízo, “to sniff at contemptuously, to disparage”)