μύξα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”) and Latin mucus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýk.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmyk.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmyk.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmyk.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmik.sa/
Noun
μύξᾰ • (múxa) f (genitive μύξης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῠ́ξᾰ hē múxa |
τὼ μῠ́ξᾱ tṑ múxā |
αἱ μῠ́ξαι hai múxai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῠ́ξης tês múxēs |
τοῖν μῠ́ξαιν toîn múxain |
τῶν μῠξῶν tôn muxôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῠ́ξῃ têi múxēi |
τοῖν μῠ́ξαιν toîn múxain |
ταῖς μῠ́ξαις taîs múxais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῠ́ξᾰν tḕn múxan |
τὼ μῠ́ξᾱ tṑ múxā |
τᾱ̀ς μῠ́ξᾱς tā̀s múxās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́ξᾰ múxa |
μῠ́ξᾱ múxā |
μῠ́ξαι múxai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
References
- “μύξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύξα 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus”), which shares an origin with μύκης (múkēs, “fungus, mushroom”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include Latin mucus.
Pronunciation
Noun
μύξα • (mýxa) f (plural μύξες)
- (colloquial, familiar) snot, booger, bogey (nasal mucus)
- Σταματά να τρως τις μύξες σου. ― Stamatá na tros tis mýxes sou. ― Stop eating your snots.
- (colloquial, humorous, figuratively) snot, slob (any slovenly person who causes disgust)
- Μην τρως το φαΐ που έφτιαξε αυτή η μύξα. ― Min tros to faḯ pou éftiaxe aftí i mýxa. ― Don't eat the food that slob made you.
Declension
Declension of μύξα
Synonyms
- φλέγμα n (flégma) (official term)
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