μυστήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῠ́στης (mústēs, “initiated one”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “I shut”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /mysˈti.ri.on/ → /misˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mysˈte̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /misˈti.ri.on/

Noun

μῠστήρῐον • (mustḗrion) n (genitive μῠστηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. revealed secret
2. mystery, secret
3. object used in mystery religions
4. (Koine) matters of science which required teaching

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῠστήρῐον; τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: mystērium
  • Old French: mistere, mystere
    • → Middle English: mysterie, mysterye, mistery, misterie, mystery
      • English: mystery
      • Scots: meestery
    • Middle French: mystere
      • French: mystère
  • → Finnish: mysteeri, mysteerio
  • → Spanish: misterio

References

• “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