μύστρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same Pre-Greek root of μυστίλη (mustílē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mýs.tron/ → /ˈmys.tron/ → /ˈmis.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mýs.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.tron/

Noun

μύστρον • (mústron) n (genitive μύστρου); second declension

1. spoon, spoonful
2. kind of unit of measure

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῠ́στρον; τοῦ μῠ́στρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῠ́στρον tò mústron	τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mústrō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tà mústra
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́στρου toû mústrou	τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mústroin	τῶν μῠ́στρων tôn mústrōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́στρῳ tôi mústrōi	τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mústroin	τοῖς μῠ́στροις toîs mústrois
Accusative	τὸ μῠ́στρον tò mústron	τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mústrō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tà mústra
Vocative	μῠ́στρον mústron	μῠ́στρω mústrō	μῠ́στρᾰ mústra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: mystrum

Further reading

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