μόσχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
According to Beekes, related to Armenian մոզի (mozi, “two-year-old bull”) and maybe from a Proto-Indo-European *mosǵʰ-o- (“young of an animal; young shoot”) root.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mós.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmos.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
Noun
μόσχος • (móskhos) m (genitive μόσχου); second declension
- A young shoot or twig
- (botany) A leafstalk, a petiole
- A calf, a young bull
- Any young animal, even of birds
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόσχος ho móskhos |
τὼ μόσχω tṑ móskhō |
οἱ μόσχοι hoi móskhoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μόσχου toû móskhou |
τοῖν μόσχοιν toîn móskhoin |
τῶν μόσχων tôn móskhōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μόσχῳ tôi móskhōi |
τοῖν μόσχοιν toîn móskhoin |
τοῖς μόσχοις toîs móskhois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόσχον tòn móskhon |
τὼ μόσχω tṑ móskhō |
τοὺς μόσχους toùs móskhous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόσχε móskhe |
μόσχω móskhō |
μόσχοι móskhoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μονόμοσχος (monómoskhos)
- μοσχάριον (moskhárion)
- μοσχάς (moskhás)
- μοσχεία (moskheía)
- μόσχευμα (móskheuma)
- μόσχευσις (móskheusis)
- μοσχεύω (moskheúō)
- μοσχῆ (moskhê)
- μοσχηδόν (moskhēdón)
- μοσχίας (moskhías)
- μοσχίδιον (moskhídion)
- μόσχινος (móskhinos)
- μοσχίον (moskhíon)
- μόσχιος (móskhios)
- μοσχοποιέω (moskhopoiéō)
- μοσχόταυρος (moskhótauros)
- μοσχοτομέα (moskhotoméa)
- μοσχοτόμος (moskhotómos)
- μοσχοτρόφος (moskhotróphos)
- μοσχοφάγος (moskhophágos)
- μοσχών (moskhṓn)
Etymology 2
From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /*mušk/), itself from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”). Compare also μύσχον (múskhon, “genitalia”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mós.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmos.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmos.xos/
Noun
μόσχος • (móskhos) m (genitive μόσχου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μόσχος ho móskhos |
τὼ μόσχω tṑ móskhō |
οἱ μόσχοι hoi móskhoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μόσχου toû móskhou |
τοῖν μόσχοιν toîn móskhoin |
τῶν μόσχων tôn móskhōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μόσχῳ tôi móskhōi |
τοῖν μόσχοιν toîn móskhoin |
τοῖς μόσχοις toîs móskhois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μόσχον tòn móskhon |
τὼ μόσχω tṑ móskhō |
τοὺς μόσχους toùs móskhous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μόσχε móskhe |
μόσχω móskhō |
μόσχοι móskhoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μοσχίτης (moskhítēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: muscus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “μόσχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μόσχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μόσχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- 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
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