μυστήριον
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μῠ́στης (mústēs, “initiated one”) + -ῐον (-ion), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “I shut”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mysˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /misˈti.ri.on/
Noun
[edit]μῠστήρῐον • (mustḗrion) n (genitive μῠστηρῐ́ου); second declension
- revealed secret
- mystery, secret
- object used in mystery religions
- (Koine) matters of science which required teaching
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mustḗrion |
τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mustēríō |
τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tà mustḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου toû mustēríou |
τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mustēríoin |
τῶν μῠστηρῐ́ων tôn mustēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠστηρῐ́ῳ tôi mustēríōi |
τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mustēríoin |
τοῖς μῠστηρῐ́οις toîs mustēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mustḗrion |
τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mustēríō |
τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tà mustḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠστήρῐον mustḗrion |
μῠστηρῐ́ω mustēríō |
μῠστήρῐᾰ mustḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Latin: mystērium
References
[edit]- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυστήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3466 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ιον
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- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
- Koine Greek