μόσυλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Has been compared with the personal name Μόσυλοι (Mósuloi).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.sy.lon/ → /ˈmo.sy.lon/ → /ˈmo.si.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.sy.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.si.lon/

Noun

μόσῠλον • (mósŭlon) n (genitive μοσῠ́λου); second declension

1. kind of cinnamon

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μόσῠλον; τοῦ μοσῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μόσῠλον tò mósŭlon	τὼ μοσῠ́λω tṑ mosŭ́lō	τᾰ̀ μόσῠλᾰ tằ mósŭlă
Genitive	τοῦ μοσῠ́λου toû mosŭ́lou	τοῖν μοσῠ́λοιν toîn mosŭ́loin	τῶν μοσῠ́λων tôn mosŭ́lōn
Dative	τῷ μοσῠ́λῳ tôi mosŭ́lōi	τοῖν μοσῠ́λοιν toîn mosŭ́loin	τοῖς μοσῠ́λοις toîs mosŭ́lois
Accusative	τὸ μόσῠλον tò mósŭlon	τὼ μοσῠ́λω tṑ mosŭ́lō	τᾰ̀ μόσῠλᾰ tằ mósŭlă
Vocative	μόσῠλον mósŭlon	μοσῠ́λω mosŭ́lō	μόσῠλᾰ mósŭlă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μοσυλῖτις (mosulîtis)

Further reading

• “μόσυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόσυλον 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