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μύστης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύστης μύστου

Structure: μυστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: mue/w

Sense

  1. one who has been initiated

Declension

First 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 παρ’ Ἀθηναίοισ Ἑλευσινίου μύστου παιδὸσ εἰκὼν οὐκ ἔχουσα ἐπιγραφήν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 120:2)
  • πλησίον δὲ ἄλλο ἐστὶν ἱερὸν Διονύσου Μύστου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 54 9:5)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν ἀρτιτελὴσ μύστησ ἀτιμότεροσ τοῦ πάλαι μύστου, ὁ δὲ νῦν πρῶτον εἰσ μύστασ τελῶν κρίνεισ τὸν μυσταγωγόν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 32:13)

Synonyms

  1. one who has been initiated

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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