μυῖα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mu-, *mew-, whence also Latin musca, Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Old Armenian մուն (mun), Albanian mizë, Latvian muša, Old English mycg (English midge).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mŷː.a/ → /ˈmy.a/ → /ˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mŷː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.a/

Noun

μυῖᾰ • (muîa) f (genitive μυίᾱς); first declension

1. a fly (the insect)

Declension

First declension of ἡ μυῖᾰ; τῆς μυίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μυῖᾰ hē muîa	τὼ μυίᾱ tṑ muíā	αἱ μυῖαι hai muîai
Genitive	τῆς μυίᾱς tês muíās	τοῖν μυίαιν toîn muíain	τῶν μυιῶν tôn muiôn
Dative	τῇ μυίᾳ têi muíāi	τοῖν μυίαιν toîn muíain	ταῖς μυίαις taîs muíais
Accusative	τὴν μυῖᾰν tḕn muîan	τὼ μυίᾱ tṑ muíā	τᾱ̀ς μυίᾱς tā̀s muíās
Vocative	μυῖᾰ muîa	μυίᾱ muíā	μυῖαι muîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• λάττα (látta)

Descendants

• English: myiasis
• Greek: μύγα (mýga)

References

• “μυῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μυῖα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μυῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μυῖα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μυῖα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fly idem, page 331.