μύκλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This word has been connected to μύκλα (múkla, “black stripe on the neck and feet of the ass”), μυχλός (mukhlós, “Phoenician word for stallion ass”) and Latin mūlus (“mule”). As the breeding of mules originates from Pontic Asia Minor, Frisk remarks that we are probably dealing with a Wanderwort. However, Beekes does not agree with this and claims that the variants prove a Pre-Greek origin, while Furnée thinks that this word must be separated from the others.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mý.klos/ → /ˈmy.klos/ → /ˈmi.klos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mý.klos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.klos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.klos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.klos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.klos/

Noun

μῠ́κλος • (múklos) m (genitive μῠ́κλου); second declension

1. lewd, lustful person
2. fold on the donkey's neck

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῠ́κλος; τοῦ μῠ́κλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠ́κλος ho múklos	τὼ μῠ́κλω tṑ múklō	οἱ μῠ́κλοι hoi múkloi
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́κλου toû múklou	τοῖν μῠ́κλοιν toîn múkloin	τῶν μῠ́κλων tôn múklōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́κλῳ tôi múklōi	τοῖν μῠ́κλοιν toîn múkloin	τοῖς μῠ́κλοις toîs múklois
Accusative	τὸν μῠ́κλον tòn múklon	τὼ μῠ́κλω tṑ múklō	τοὺς μῠ́κλους toùs múklous
Vocative	μῠ́κλε múkle	μῠ́κλω múklō	μῠ́κλοι múkloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μύκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μύκλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύκλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 978