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μύκης

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύκης μύκητος

Structure: μυκητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "καὶ μύκησ τισ ἐνίοτ’ ἂν ὠπτᾶτο καὶ κοχλίασ γενομένου ψακαδίου ἠγρεύετ’ ἂν καὶ λάχανα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων θλαστὴ τ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5265)
  • "Ἀντιφάνησ τὸ δεῖπνόν ἐστι μᾶζα κεχαρακωμένη ἀχύροισ, πρὸσ εὐτέλειαν ἐξωπλισμένη, καὶ βολβὸσ εἷσ τισ καὶ παροψίδεσ τινέσ, σόγχοσ τισ ἢ μύκησ τισ ἢ τοιαῦθ’ ἃ δὴ δίδωσιν ἡμῖν ὁ τόποσ ἄθλι’ ἀθλίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5267)
  • "ὁ δὲ μύκησ ἔχει προσφύσεωσ δίκην τὸν καυλὸν εἰσ μῆκοσ, καὶ ἀποτείνουσιν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ῥίζαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52101)
  • καὶ Φαινίασ δὲ ἐν α’ περὶ φυτῶν τὰ δὲ οὐδὲ φύει τὴν ἀνθήλην οὐδὲ τῆσ σπερματικῆσ ἴχνοσ κορυνήσεωσ οὐδὲ σπερματώσεωσ, οἱο͂ν μύκησ, ὕδνον, πτέρισ, ἕλιξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52103)
  • "λειόφλοια, καθάπερ ὕδνον, μύκησ, πέζισ, γεράνειον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52107)

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