μύσος

See also: Μυσός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word recalls μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) but remains without certain etymology. Pokorny compares Irish mosach (“shaggy, bristly”), Low German mussig (“dirty”) and Russian му́слить (múslitʹ, “to suck, beslaver”). The group has been compared with the root of μυδάω (mudáō, “to be moist”), but this remains hypothetical.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mý.sos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.sos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.sos/

Noun

μύσος • (músos) n (genitive μύσους); third declension

uncleanness, defilement, pollution

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ μῠ́σος; τοῦ μῠ́σους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῠ́σος tò músos	τὼ μῠ́σει tṑ músei	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ση tà músē
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́σους toû músous	τοῖν μῠσοῖν toîn musoîn	τῶν μῠσῶν tôn musôn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́σει tôi músei	τοῖν μῠσοῖν toîn musoîn	τοῖς μῠ́σεσῐ / μῠ́σεσῐν toîs músesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ μῠ́σος tò músos	τὼ μῠ́σει tṑ músei	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ση tà músē
Vocative	μῠ́σος músos	μῠ́σει músei	μῠ́ση músē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μύσαγμα (músagma)
μυσάζω (musázō)
μυσαρία (musaría)
μυσαρός (musarós)
μυσάρχης (musárkhēs)
μυσαρωπός (musarōpós)
μυσάττομαι (musáttomai)
μυσαχθής (musakhthḗs)
μυσαχνός (musakhnós)
μύσαχος (músakhos)
μυσητός (musētós)

References

μύσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μύσος 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