μύστης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “I shut”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýs.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmys.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmis.tis/
Noun
μῠ́στης • (mústēs) m (genitive μῠ́στου); first declension
- one who has been initiated, initiate
Inflection
First declension of ὁ μῠ́στης; τοῦ μῠ́στου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠ́στης ho mústēs | τὼ μῠ́στᾱ tṑ mústā | οἱ μῠ́σται hoi mústai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́στου toû mústou | τοῖν μῠ́σταιν toîn mústain | τῶν μῠστῶν tôn mustôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠ́στῃ tôi mústēi | τοῖν μῠ́σταιν toîn mústain | τοῖς μῠ́σταις toîs mústais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠ́στην tòn mústēn | τὼ μῠ́στᾱ tṑ mústā | τοὺς μῠ́στᾱς toùs mústās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́στᾰ músta | μῠ́στᾱ mústā | μῠ́σται mústai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μύστις (mústis)
- μῠστήρῐον (mustḗrion)
- μῠστῐκός (mustikós)
- σῠμμῠ́στης (summústēs)
Descendants
- Latin: mystēs, mysta
References
- “μύστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύστης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- initiated idem, page 441.
- mystery idem, page 549.
- mystery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911