μυθικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῦθος (mûthos) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myː.tʰi.kós/ → /my.θiˈkos/ → /mi.θiˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myː.tʰi.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.tʰiˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.θiˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.θiˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.θiˈkos/

Adjective

μῡθῐκός • (mūthikós) m (feminine μῡθῐκή, neuter μῡθῐκόν); first/second declension

1. mythic, legendary

Declension

First and second declension of μῡθῐκός; μῡθῐκή; μῡθῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		μῡθῐκός mūthikós	μῡθῐκή mūthikḗ	μῡθῐκόν mūthikón		μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ	μῡθῐκᾱ́ mūthikā́	μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ		μῡθῐκοί mūthikoí	μῡθῐκαί mūthikaí	μῡθῐκᾰ́ mūthiká
Genitive		μῡθῐκοῦ mūthikoû	μῡθῐκῆς mūthikês	μῡθῐκοῦ mūthikoû		μῡθῐκοῖν mūthikoîn	μῡθῐκαῖν mūthikaîn	μῡθῐκοῖν mūthikoîn		μῡθῐκῶν mūthikôn	μῡθῐκῶν mūthikôn	μῡθῐκῶν mūthikôn
Dative		μῡθῐκῷ mūthikôi	μῡθῐκῇ mūthikêi	μῡθῐκῷ mūthikôi		μῡθῐκοῖν mūthikoîn	μῡθῐκαῖν mūthikaîn	μῡθῐκοῖν mūthikoîn		μῡθῐκοῖς mūthikoîs	μῡθῐκαῖς mūthikaîs	μῡθῐκοῖς mūthikoîs
Accusative		μῡθῐκόν mūthikón	μῡθῐκήν mūthikḗn	μῡθῐκόν mūthikón		μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ	μῡθῐκᾱ́ mūthikā́	μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ		μῡθῐκούς mūthikoús	μῡθῐκᾱ́ς mūthikā́s	μῡθῐκᾰ́ mūthiká
Vocative		μῡθῐκέ mūthiké	μῡθῐκή mūthikḗ	μῡθῐκόν mūthikón		μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ	μῡθῐκᾱ́ mūthikā́	μῡθῐκώ mūthikṓ		μῡθῐκοί mūthikoí	μῡθῐκαί mūthikaí	μῡθῐκᾰ́ mūthiká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		μῡθῐκῶς mūthikôs				μῡθῐκώτερος mūthikṓteros				μῡθῐκώτᾰτος mūthikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mȳthicus
  • Catalan: mític
  • → Danish: mytisk
  • → Dutch: mythisch
  • → English: mythic, mythical
  • French: mythique
  • → German: mythisch
  • → Hungarian: mitikus
  • Italian: mitico
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: mytisk
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: mytisk
  • Portuguese: mítico
  • Spanish: mítico

Further reading

• μυθικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μυθικός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μυθικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • legendary idem, page 484.
  • mythical idem, page 549.
  • mythological idem, page 549.