μυξῖνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μύξα (múxa, “mucus”) +‎ -ῖνος (-înos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myk.sîː.nos/ → /mykˈsi.nos/ → /mikˈsi.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myk.sîː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mykˈsi.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mykˈsi.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mykˈsi.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mikˈsi.nos/

Noun

μῠξῖνος • (muxînos) m (genitive μῠξῑ́νου); second declension

1. kind of mullet

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῠξῖνος; τοῦ μῠξῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠξῖνος ho muxînos	τὼ μῠξῑ́νω tṑ muxī́nō	οἱ μῠξῖνοι hoi muxînoi
Genitive	τοῦ μῠξῑ́νου toû muxī́nou	τοῖν μῠξῑ́νοιν toîn muxī́noin	τῶν μῠξῑ́νων tôn muxī́nōn
Dative	τῷ μῠξῑ́νῳ tôi muxī́nōi	τοῖν μῠξῑ́νοιν toîn muxī́noin	τοῖς μῠξῑ́νοις toîs muxī́nois
Accusative	τὸν μῠξῖνον tòn muxînon	τὼ μῠξῑ́νω tṑ muxī́nō	τοὺς μῠξῑ́νους toùs muxī́nous
Vocative	μῠξῖνε muxîne	μῠξῑ́νω muxī́nō	μῠξῖνοι muxînoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: missina
• → Translingual: Myxine

Further reading

• “μυξῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μυξῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette