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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

  • "ὧν σὺ μύκητα θρεπτὸν μή τι χαμηλὸν ἀπὸ ῥίζησ προτάμοιο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5280)
  • μήποτε, λύχνε, μύκητα φέροισ, μηδ’ ὄμβρον ἐγείροισ, μὴ τὸν ἐμὸν παύσῃσ νυμφίον ἐρχόμενον, αἰεὶ σὺ φθονέεισ τῇ Κύπριδι, καὶ γὰρ ὅθ’ Ἡρὼ ἡρ́μοσε Λειάνδρῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2631)
  • ἤκουσα δὲ καὶ ὡσ διψῶντι ἐπῆλθεν ἀνελέσθαι οἱ μύκητα ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ, ῥυέντοσ δὲ ὕδατοσ πιὼν καὶ ἡσθεὶσ Μυκήνασ ἔθετο τὸ ὄνομα τῷ χωρίῳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 6:1)

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