μουσεῖον

See also: Μουσεῖον

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 23 April 2016

Etymology

Use as a common noun of Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /muː.sêː.on/ → /muˈsi.on/ → /muˈsi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /muː.sêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /muˈsi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /muˈsi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /muˈsi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /muˈsi.on/

Noun

μουσεῖον • (mouseîon) n (genitive μουσείου); second declension

1. a home of music or poetry
   1. a choir
   2. (generally) a school of art or letters
      1. of Athens
2. a museum, i.e. a philosophical school and library
   1. used of the Platonic Academy
   2. used of the Musaeum at Alexandria

Declension

Second declension of τὸ μουσεῖον; τοῦ μουσείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μουσεῖον tò mouseîon	τὼ μουσείω tṑ mouseíō	τᾰ̀ μουσεῖᾰ tà mouseîa
Genitive	τοῦ μουσείου toû mouseíou	τοῖν μουσείοιν toîn mouseíoin	τῶν μουσείων tôn mouseíōn
Dative	τῷ μουσείῳ tôi mouseíōi	τοῖν μουσείοιν toîn mouseíoin	τοῖς μουσείοις toîs mouseíois
Accusative	τὸ μουσεῖον tò mouseîon	τὼ μουσείω tṑ mouseíō	τᾰ̀ μουσεῖᾰ tà mouseîa
Vocative	μουσεῖον mouseîon	μουσείω mouseíō	μουσεῖᾰ mouseîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μουσείο (mouseío)
• Latin: mūsēum, mūsīvum

References

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