Μυσός

See also: μύσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Μυσός is possibly an exonym from μύσος (músos, “defilement, uncleanness”), as Mysians were described as being weak and subpar, which could be related to μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) or μαδάω (madáō, “I am wet, moist”), or a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myː.sós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /myˈsos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /myˈsos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /myˈsos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈsos/

Noun

Μῡσός • (Mūsós) m (genitive Μῡσοῦ); second declension

a Mysian
an inhabitant of Mysia

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Μῡσός; τοῦ Μῡσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Μῡσός ho Mūsós	τὼ Μῡσώ tṑ Mūsṓ	οἱ Μῡσοί hoi Mūsoí
Genitive	τοῦ Μῡσοῦ toû Mūsoû	τοῖν Μῡσοῖν toîn Mūsoîn	τῶν Μῡσῶν tôn Mūsôn
Dative	τῷ Μῡσῷ tôi Mūsôi	τοῖν Μῡσοῖν toîn Mūsoîn	τοῖς Μῡσοῖς toîs Mūsoîs
Accusative	τὸν Μῡσόν tòn Mūsón	τὼ Μῡσώ tṑ Mūsṓ	τοὺς Μῡσούς toùs Mūsoús
Vocative	Μῡσέ Mūsé	Μῡσώ Mūsṓ	Μῡσοί Mūsoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Μῡσῐ́ᾱ (Mūsíā)
Μῡ́σῐος (Mū́sios)

Descendants

Greek: Μυσός (Mysós)
Latin: Mȳsus

References

“Μυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Μυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
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