μνόος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μνοῦς (mnoûs)

Etymology

Unknown. Rhyming word with χνόος (khnóos, “wool, flock; first down”). On the other hand, compare μνίον (mníon, “seaweed”); maybe this word is a cross of these two.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mnó.os/ → /ˈmno.os/ → /ˈmno.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mnó.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmno.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmno.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmno.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmno.os/

Noun

μνόος • (mnóos) m (genitive μνόου); second declension

1. fine, soft down, as of young birds
2. sweetmeat, confection

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μνόος; τοῦ μνόου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μνόος ho mnóos	τὼ μνόω tṑ mnóō	οἱ μνόοι hoi mnóoi
Genitive	τοῦ μνόου toû mnóou	τοῖν μνόοιν toîn mnóoin	τῶν μνόων tôn mnóōn
Dative	τῷ μνόῳ tôi mnóōi	τοῖν μνόοιν toîn mnóoin	τοῖς μνόοις toîs mnóois
Accusative	τὸν μνόον tòn mnóon	τὼ μνόω tṑ mnóō	τοὺς μνόους toùs mnóous
Vocative	μνόε mnóe	μνόω mnóō	μνόοι mnóoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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