μιμαίκυλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μεμαίκυλον (memaíkulon)

Etymology

A foreign word, undoubtedly from Pre-Greek, in view of the variation and the reduplication.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mi.mǎi̯.ky.lon/ → /miˈmɛ.cy.lon/ → /miˈme.ci.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mi.mǎi̯.ky.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /miˈmɛ.ky.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈmɛ.cy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈme.cy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈme.ci.lon/

Noun

μῐμαίκῠλον • (mimaíkulon) n (genitive μῐμαικῠ́λου); second declension

1. (botany) fruit of the strawberry tree

Declension

Second declension of τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον; τοῦ μῐμαικῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mimaíkulon	τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mimaikúlō	τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tà mimaíkula
Genitive	τοῦ μῐμαικῠ́λου toû mimaikúlou	τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mimaikúloin	τῶν μῐμαικῠ́λων tôn mimaikúlōn
Dative	τῷ μῐμαικῠ́λῳ tôi mimaikúlōi	τοῖν μῐμαικῠ́λοιν toîn mimaikúloin	τοῖς μῐμαικῠ́λοις toîs mimaikúlois
Accusative	τὸ μῐμαίκῠλον tò mimaíkulon	τὼ μῐμαικῠ́λω tṑ mimaikúlō	τᾰ̀ μῐμαίκῠλᾰ tà mimaíkula
Vocative	μῐμαίκῠλον mimaíkulon	μῐμαικῠ́λω mimaikúlō	μῐμαίκῠλᾰ mimaíkula
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μεμαίντζουλο n (memaíntzoulo, “fruit of the strawberry tree”) (dialectal, Euboea)

Further reading

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