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 mŭ́stron	τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mŭ́strō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tằ mŭ́stră
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́στρου toû mŭ́strou	τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mŭ́stroin	τῶν μῠ́στρων tôn mŭ́strōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́στρῳ tôi mŭ́strōi	τοῖν μῠ́στροιν toîn mŭ́stroin	τοῖς μῠ́στροις toîs mŭ́strois
Accusative	τὸ μῠ́στρον tò mŭ́stron	τὼ μῠ́στρω tṑ mŭ́strō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́στρᾰ tằ mŭ́stră
Vocative	μῠ́στρον mŭ́stron	μῠ́στρω mŭ́strō	μῠ́στρᾰ mŭ́stră
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