μύτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Pre-Greek and related to μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tis/
Noun
μύτῐς • (mútis) f (genitive μύτῐδος); third declension
- (zoology) that part of molluscs that answer to the liver
- snout
Declension
Third declension of ἡ μῠ́τῐς; τῆς μῠ́τῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῠ́τῐς hē mútis | τὼ μῠ́τῐδε tṑ mútide | αἱ μῠ́τῐδες hai mútides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῠ́τῐδος tês mútidos | τοῖν μῠτῐ́δοιν toîn mutídoin | τῶν μῠτῐ́δων tôn mutídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῠ́τῐδῐ têi mútidi | τοῖν μῠτῐ́δοιν toîn mutídoin | ταῖς μῠ́τῐσῐ / μῠ́τῐσῐν taîs mútisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῠ́τῐδᾰ tḕn mútida | τὼ μῠ́τῐδε tṑ mútide | τᾱ̀ς μῠ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s mútidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́τῐς mútis | μῠ́τῐδε mútide | μῠ́τῐδες mútides | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: μύτη (mýti)
Further reading
- μύτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύτις 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