Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "Νίκανδροσ δ’ ἐν Γεωργικοῖσ καταλέγει καὶ τίνεσ αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ θανάσιμοι, λέγων ἐχθρὰ δ’ ἐλαίησ ῥοιῆσ τε πρίνου τε δρυὸσ τ’ ἄπο πήματα κεῖται, οἰδαλέων σύγκολλα βάρη πνιγόεντα μυκήτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5278)
  • ἄτοπόν ἐστι πράγματοσ σπανίου καὶ πολυτελοῦσ μὴ ἀπολαῦσαι παρόντοσ, οἱο͂ν οὔθατοσ ἢ μυκήτων Ἰταλικῶν ἢ Σαμίου πλακοῦντοσ ἢ χιόνοσ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 6 6:1)
  • μυκήτων· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 4)

Related

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION