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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /myn.dós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mynˈdos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mynˈdos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mynˈdos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /minˈdos/
Adjective
μῠνδός • (mundós) m or f (neuter μῠνδόν); second declension
- mute, dumb
- Synonyms: ἄφωνος (áphōnos), ἐνεός (eneós)
Declension
Second declension of μῠνδός; μῠνδόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
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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