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|etymtx=-ητος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[mushroom]], also metaph., e.g. <b class="b2">mushroomlike excrescence, any knobber round body, cab or cap at the end of a scabbard, snuff of a lamp-wick, membrum virile</b> (IA.).<br />Other forms: gen. also <b class="b3">-ου</b> (Ion. <b class="b3">-εω</b>), pl. <b class="b3">-αι</b><br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μυκήτ-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of mushrooms</b> (Luc.), <b class="b3">μυκόομαι</b> <b class="b2">become like a mushroom, spongy</b> (medic.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation in <b class="b3">-η(τ</b>)- (Schwyzer 462 u. 499) from a noun, which may be found in Lat. [[mūcus]] <b class="b2">snivel, mucus of the nose</b>; on the meaning cf. Slav., e.g. Sloven. <b class="b2">glíva</b> [[agaric]] to Lith. <b class="b2">gleĩvės</b> [[slime]] etc. (Schulze KZ 45, 189 = Kl. Schr. 619); further s. <b class="b3">μύσσομαι</b>. -- Diff. (hesitating) Strömberg Pflanzennamen 28: from <b class="b3">μῦς</b> [[mouse]] because of the grey colour as Fr. <b class="b2">gris souris</b> name of a mushroom. But <b class="b3">μύκης</b> is not only a grey mushroom, and its formation is unclear. Fur. 298 thinks correctly that the meanings of this word cannot be all explained from a derivation from <b class="b3">μύσσομαι</b> <b class="b2">snuff, blow one's nose</b> and assumes a basic meaning [[prominent]], [[extremity]]. He connects the word with <b class="b3">μύσκλοι οἱ πυθμένες τῶν ξηρῶν σύκων Η</b>, which implies that the word is Pre-Greek. On the suffix <b class="b3">-ης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> (in Pre-Greek) s. p. 172 n. 118. | |etymtx=-ητος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[mushroom]], also metaph., e.g. <b class="b2">mushroomlike excrescence, any knobber round body, cab or cap at the end of a scabbard, snuff of a lamp-wick, membrum virile</b> (IA.).<br />Other forms: gen. also <b class="b3">-ου</b> (Ion. <b class="b3">-εω</b>), pl. <b class="b3">-αι</b><br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μυκήτ-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of mushrooms</b> (Luc.), <b class="b3">μυκόομαι</b> <b class="b2">become like a mushroom, spongy</b> (medic.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation in <b class="b3">-η(τ</b>)- (Schwyzer 462 u. 499) from a noun, which may be found in Lat. [[mūcus]] <b class="b2">snivel, mucus of the nose</b>; on the meaning cf. Slav., e.g. Sloven. <b class="b2">glíva</b> [[agaric]] to Lith. <b class="b2">gleĩvės</b> [[slime]] etc. (Schulze KZ 45, 189 = Kl. Schr. 619); further s. <b class="b3">μύσσομαι</b>. -- Diff. (hesitating) Strömberg Pflanzennamen 28: from <b class="b3">μῦς</b> [[mouse]] because of the grey colour as Fr. <b class="b2">gris souris</b> name of a mushroom. But <b class="b3">μύκης</b> is not only a grey mushroom, and its formation is unclear. Fur. 298 thinks correctly that the meanings of this word cannot be all explained from a derivation from <b class="b3">μύσσομαι</b> <b class="b2">snuff, blow one's nose</b> and assumes a basic meaning [[prominent]], [[extremity]]. He connects the word with <b class="b3">μύσκλοι οἱ πυθμένες τῶν ξηρῶν σύκων Η</b>, which implies that the word is Pre-Greek. On the suffix <b class="b3">-ης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> (in Pre-Greek) s. p. 172 n. 118. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=!μύ˘κης, ητος, ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a mushroom, Lat. [[fungus]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> any [[thing]] shaped like a mushroom,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the chape or cap at the end of a [[scabbard]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[snuff]] of a [[lamp]]-[[wick]], supposed to forbode [[rain]], Ar. | |||
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