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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μύστης μύστᾱ μύσται
Genitive μύστου μύσταιν μυστῶν
Dative μύστῃ μύσταιν μύσταις
Accusative μύστην μύστᾱ μύστᾱς
Vocative μύστα μύστᾱ μύσται

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

  • τὰ μυστῶν δ’ ὄργι’ εὐτύχησ’ ἰδών. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 5:14)
  • οὐχ ἱκανὸν ἦν τὸ τοῖσ μυστηρίοισ φανὲν σημεῖον, ἡ τῶν μυστῶν τελευτή; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 130 1:3)
  • Κλεόκριτοσ δὲ ὁ τῶν μυστῶν κῆρυξ, μάλ’ εὔφωνοσ ὤν, κατασιωπησάμενοσ ἔλεξεν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 24:1)
  • λαβόντεσ <δὲ> γράμματα ἐξ αὐτῶν ἔχοντα ἐσ τὴν τελετὴν καὶ ἀναγνόντεσ <ἐσ> ἐπήκοον τῶν μυστῶν, κατέθεντο ἐν νυκτὶ αὖθισ τῇ αὐτῇ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who has been initiated

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