μούσμων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from a non-Indo-European, possibly Pre-Greek, substrate language.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mǔːz.mɔːn/ → /ˈmuz.mon/ → /ˈmuz.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mǔːz.mɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmuz.mon/

Noun

μούσμων • (moúsmōn) m (genitive μούσμονος); third declension

1. mouflon (Ovis orientalis musimon)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ μούσμων; τοῦ μούσμονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μούσμων ho moúsmōn	τὼ μούσμονε tṑ moúsmone	οἱ μούσμονες hoi moúsmones
Genitive	τοῦ μούσμονος toû moúsmonos	τοῖν μουσμόνοιν toîn mousmónoin	τῶν μουσμόνων tôn mousmónōn
Dative	τῷ μούσμονῐ tôi moúsmoni	τοῖν μουσμόνοιν toîn mousmónoin	τοῖς μούσμοσῐ / μούσμοσῐν toîs moúsmosi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μούσμονᾰ tòn moúsmona	τὼ μούσμονε tṑ moúsmone	τοὺς μούσμονᾰς toùs moúsmonas
Vocative	μοῦσμον moûsmon	μούσμονε moúsmone	μούσμονες moúsmones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: musimō

Further reading

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