μόσυλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Has been compared with the personal name Μόσυλοι (Mósuloi).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.sy.lon/ → /ˈmo.sy.lon/ → /ˈmo.si.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.sy.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.si.lon/

Noun

μόσῠλον • (mósulon) n (genitive μοσῠ́λου); second declension

1. kind of cinnamon

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μόσῠλον; τοῦ μοσῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μόσῠλον tò mósulon	τὼ μοσῠ́λω tṑ mosúlō	τᾰ̀ μόσῠλᾰ tà mósula
Genitive	τοῦ μοσῠ́λου toû mosúlou	τοῖν μοσῠ́λοιν toîn mosúloin	τῶν μοσῠ́λων tôn mosúlōn
Dative	τῷ μοσῠ́λῳ tôi mosúlōi	τοῖν μοσῠ́λοιν toîn mosúloin	τοῖς μοσῠ́λοις toîs mosúlois
Accusative	τὸ μόσῠλον tò mósulon	τὼ μοσῠ́λω tṑ mosúlō	τᾰ̀ μόσῠλᾰ tà mósula
Vocative	μόσῠλον mósulon	μοσῠ́λω mosúlō	μόσῠλᾰ mósula
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μοσυλῖτις (mosulîtis)

Further reading

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