μυστίλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μιστίλη (mistílē), μιστύλλη (mistúllē)

Etymology

Formation like ζωμίλη (zōmílē), κονίλη (konílē) and μαρίλη (marílē). Probably from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -ῑλη. Both the alternative forms are due to confusion with μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “to cut up”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mys.tǐː.lɛː/ → /mysˈti.li/ → /misˈti.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mys.tǐː.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /misˈti.li/

Noun

μῠστῑ́λη • (mustī́lē) f (genitive μῠστῑ́λης); first declension

1. piece of bread scooped out as a spoon, to sup soup or gravy with

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῠστῑ́λη; τῆς μῠστῑ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῠστῑ́λη hē mustī́lē	τὼ μῠστῑ́λᾱ tṑ mustī́lā	αἱ μῠστῖλαι hai mustîlai
Genitive	τῆς μῠστῑ́λης tês mustī́lēs	τοῖν μῠστῑ́λαιν toîn mustī́lain	τῶν μῠστῑλῶν tôn mustīlôn
Dative	τῇ μῠστῑ́λῃ têi mustī́lēi	τοῖν μῠστῑ́λαιν toîn mustī́lain	ταῖς μῠστῑ́λαις taîs mustī́lais
Accusative	τὴν μῠστῑ́λην tḕn mustī́lēn	τὼ μῠστῑ́λᾱ tṑ mustī́lā	τᾱ̀ς μῠστῑ́λᾱς tā̀s mustī́lās
Vocative	μῠστῑ́λη mustī́lē	μῠστῑ́λᾱ mustī́lā	μῠστῖλαι mustîlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μυστιλάομαι (mustiláomai)
• μυστιλάριον (mustilárion)

 

Further reading

• “μυστίλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυστίλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μυστίλη 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