μουστάκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip, mustache”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix) with altered first vowel.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /musˈta.ci.on/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /musˈta.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /musˈta.ci.on/

Noun

μουστάκιον • (moustákion) n (genitive μουστακίου); second declension

1. (Byzantine) diminutive of μύσταξ (mústax)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ μουστάκιον; τοῦ μουστακίου (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μουστάκιον tò moustákion	τᾰ̀ μουστάκιᾰ tà moustákia
Genitive	τοῦ μουστακίου toû moustakíou	τῶν μουστακίων tôn moustakíōn
Dative	τῷ μουστακίῳ tôi moustakíōi	τοῖς μουστακίοις toîs moustakíois
Accusative	τὸ μουστάκιον tò moustákion	τᾰ̀ μουστάκιᾰ tà moustákia
Vocative	μουστάκιον moustákion	μουστάκιᾰ moustákia

Descendants

• Greek: μουστάκι (moustáki)
• Pontic Greek: μουστάκιν (moustákin), μουστάκι (moustáki), μουστάκ' (mousták')
  • → Laz: მუსტაკი (musťaǩi), მუსტაჭი (musťaç̌i)
• → Medieval Latin: mustācium (see there for further descendants)

See also

• μουστάκια n pl (moustákia, “a kind of cake”) (etymologically unrelated)

Further reading

• “μουστάκιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μουστάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press