μύκης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include Latin mucus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mý.kɛːs/ → /ˈmy.cis/ → /ˈmi.cis/

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

Noun

μῠ́κης • (múkēs) m (genitive μῠ́κητος); third declension

1. A mushroom or other fungus.
2. Any mushroom-shaped object.

Declension

Third declension of ὁ μῠ́κης; τοῦ μῠ́κητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠ́κης ho múkēs	τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte	οἱ μῠ́κητες hoi múkētes
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́κητος toû múkētos	τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin	τῶν μῠκήτων tôn mukḗtōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́κητῐ tôi múkēti	τοῖν μῠκήτοιν toîn mukḗtoin	τοῖς μῠ́κησῐ / μῠ́κησῐν toîs múkēsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μῠ́κητᾰ tòn múkēta	τὼ μῠ́κητε tṑ múkēte	τοὺς μῠ́κητᾰς toùs múkētas
Vocative	μῠ́κης múkēs	μῠ́κητε múkēte	μῠ́κητες múkētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Derived terms

• μυκήτινος (mukḗtinos)

Descendants

• Translingual: (taxonomic infraphylum)

References

• “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μύκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fungus idem, page 350.