μαστός
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps related to μαδάω (madáō, “to be moist”). If so, then from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, glossy, fat, well-fed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mas.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /masˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /masˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /masˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /masˈtos/
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Noun
[edit]μᾰστός • (mastós) m (genitive μᾰστοῦ); second declension
Usage notes
[edit]All usage contradicts the statement of the Grammarians that μαζός (mazós) is the man's breast, μαστός (mastós) the woman's.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μᾰστός ho mastós |
τὼ μᾰστώ tṑ mastṓ |
οἱ μᾰστοί hoi mastoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μᾰστοῦ toû mastoû |
τοῖν μᾰστοῖν toîn mastoîn |
τῶν μᾰστῶν tôn mastôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μᾰστῷ tôi mastôi |
τοῖν μᾰστοῖν toîn mastoîn |
τοῖς μᾰστοῖς toîs mastoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μᾰστόν tòn mastón |
τὼ μᾰστώ tṑ mastṓ |
τοὺς μᾰστούς toùs mastoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μᾰστέ masté |
μᾰστώ mastṓ |
μᾰστοί mastoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- βᾰρῠ́μᾰστος (barúmastos)
- μᾰστᾰ́ρῐον (mastárion)
- μᾰστῐ́ον (mastíon)
- μᾰστόδεσμος (mastódesmos)
- μᾰστόδετον (mastódeton)
- μᾰστοειδής (mastoeidḗs)
- μᾰστώδης (mastṓdēs)
- μεγαλόμασθος (megalómasthos)
- μεγαλόμαστος (megalómastos)
- πρόμᾰστος (prómastos)
- φῐλόμᾰστος (philómastos)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: mastos
References
[edit]- “μαστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μαστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μαστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μαστός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3149 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]μαστός • (mastós) m (plural μαστοί)
- (anatomy) breast (mammary gland)
- (zoology) udder
Declension
[edit]Declension of μαστός
Synonyms
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