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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

  • "ταχὺ δὴ λαβὼν ὄπτα μύκητασ πρινίνουσ τουσδὶ δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5270)
  • "ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰ τῶν ὑμετέρων φάγοιμί τι, μύκητασ ὠμοὺσ ἂν φαγεῖν ἐμοὶ δοκῶ καὶ στρυφνὰ μῆλα κεἴ τι πνίγει βρῶμά τι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5273)
  • "καί τε μύκητασ ἀμανίτασ τότ’ ἐφεύσεισ, φησὶν ὁ αὐτὸσ Νίκανδροσ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5282)
  • "Ἐπαρχίδησ Εὐριπίδην φησὶ τὸν ποιητὴν ἐπιδημῆσαι τῇ Ἰκάρῳ καὶ γυναικόσ τινοσ μετὰ τέκνων κατὰ τοὺσ ἀγρούσ, δύο μὲν ἀρρένων τελείων, μιᾶσ δὲ παρθένου, φαγούσησ θανασίμουσ μύκητασ καὶ ἀποπνιγείσησ μετὰ τῶν τέκνων ποιῆσαι τουτὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5285)
  • Δίφιλόσ φησι τοὺσ μύκητασ εἶναι εὐστόμουσ, κοιλίασ διαχωρητικούσ, θρεπτικούσ, δυσπέπτουσ δὲ καὶ φυσώδεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5293)

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