μυστήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek μῡ́ω (mū́ō)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek μῠέω (mŭéō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)

Ancient Greek μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?

Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)

Ancient Greek μυστήριον

From μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs, “initiated one”) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon), from μυέω (muéō, “to initiate into mysteries”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “to shut”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /mysˈti.ri.on/ → /misˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mysˈte̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mysˈti.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /misˈti.ri.on/

Noun

μῠστήρῐον • (mŭstḗrĭon) n (genitive μῠστηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. revealed secret
2. mystery, secret
3. object used in mystery religions
4. (Koine) matters of science which required teaching

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῠστήρῐον; τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mŭstḗrĭon	τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mŭstērĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tằ mŭstḗrĭă
Genitive	τοῦ μῠστηρῐ́ου toû mŭstērĭ́ou	τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mŭstērĭ́oin	τῶν μῠστηρῐ́ων tôn mŭstērĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ μῠστηρῐ́ῳ tōî mŭstērĭ́ōi	τοῖν μῠστηρῐ́οιν toîn mŭstērĭ́oin	τοῖς μῠστηρῐ́οις toîs mŭstērĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ μῠστήρῐον tò mŭstḗrĭon	τὼ μῠστηρῐ́ω tṑ mŭstērĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ μῠστήρῐᾰ tằ mŭstḗrĭă
Vocative	μῠστήρῐον mŭstḗrĭon	μῠστηρῐ́ω mŭstērĭ́ō	μῠστήρῐᾰ mŭstḗrĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: mystērium
  • Old French: mistere, mystere
    • → Middle English: mysterie, mysterye, mistery, misterie, mystery
      • English: mystery
      • Scots: meestery
    • Middle French: mystere
      • French: mystère
  • → Finnish: mysteeri, mysteerio
  • → German: Mysterium
  • → Spanish: misterio

References

• “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μυστήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3466 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible