μύρσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been compared with Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌓𐌑 (murś, “urn”). Furnée accepts this and further compares βυρρός (burrhós, “cantharus”). Probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mýr.sos/ → /ˈmyr.sos/ → /ˈmir.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mýr.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmyr.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmir.sos/

Noun

μύρσος • (múrsos) m (genitive μύρσου); second declension

1. basket with two handles

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῠ́ρσος; τοῦ μῠ́ρσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠ́ρσος ho múrsos	τὼ μῠ́ρσω tṑ múrsō	οἱ μῠ́ρσοι hoi múrsoi
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́ρσου toû múrsou	τοῖν μῠ́ρσοιν toîn múrsoin	τῶν μῠ́ρσων tôn múrsōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́ρσῳ tôi múrsōi	τοῖν μῠ́ρσοιν toîn múrsoin	τοῖς μῠ́ρσοις toîs múrsois
Accusative	τὸν μῠ́ρσον tòn múrson	τὼ μῠ́ρσω tṑ múrsō	τοὺς μῠ́ρσους toùs múrsous
Vocative	μῠ́ρσε múrse	μῠ́ρσω múrsō	μῠ́ρσοι múrsoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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