μυστήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μῠ́στης (mústēs, “initiated one”) + -ῐον (-ion), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “I shut”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mysˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /misˈti.ri.on/
Noun
μῠστήρῐον • (mustḗrion) n (genitive μῠστηρῐ́ου); second declension
- revealed secret
- mystery, secret
- object used in mystery religions
- (Koine) matters of science which required teaching
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μῠστήρῐον; τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mustḗrion | τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mustēríō | τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tà mustḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου toû mustēríou | τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mustēríoin | τῶν μῠστηρῐ́ων tôn mustēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠστηρῐ́ῳ tôi mustēríōi | τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mustēríoin | τοῖς μῠστηρῐ́οις toîs mustēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mustḗrion | τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mustēríō | τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tà mustḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠστήρῐον mustḗrion | μῠστηρῐ́ω mustēríō | μῠστήρῐᾰ mustḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: mystērium
References
- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυστήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3466 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible