μύκης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῠ], ητος</b> (but Ion. gen. -εω <span class="bibl">Archil.47</span>, acc. -ην <span class="bibl">Hecat.22</span> J. (-ῆν codd.), Nic.<span class="title">Fr.</span>72.7; Dor. and Att. nom. pl. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> μύκαι <span class="bibl">Epich.155</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span>42</span>, <span class="bibl">Diocl.Fr.119</span>; acc. pl. μύκας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.620.31</span> (iii B. C.), censured by Phryn.178; dat. pl. τοῖς μύκαις Diph.Siph. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.2.62c</span>), ὁ, [[mushroom]] or other [[fungus]], Epich. l. c., <span class="bibl">Antiph.188</span>, <span class="bibl">226.4</span>, <span class="bibl">227.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Ephipp.27</span>, <span class="bibl">Polioch.2.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.1.11</span>, <span class="title">PSI</span>l.c., <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>525</span>, Dsc. 4.82, <span class="bibl">Paus.2.16.3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">any knobbed round body</b>, shaped like a mushroom, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[chape]] or [[cap at the end of a scabbard]], Hecat. l.c., <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.64</span>, Paus. l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">membrum virile</b>, Archil. l.c., Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">fleshy excrescence</b>, such as forms on wounds, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Morb.</span>2.50</span>, Gal.17(1).703. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[excrescence]] on trees, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.14.3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">stump of an olive</b> cut down, <span class="title">IG</span>2.1055.43. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> <b class="b2">snuff of a lamp-wick</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>262</span>, Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span> l.c., <span class="bibl">Arat.976</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>47</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>5.262 (Agath.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">μύκαι οἷς τὰ ἱμάτια βάπτουσι</b>, dub. sens. in Zopyr. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.14.62.1</span>.— Fem. only in Epich.l.c. (where however <b class="b3">οἷον αἰ μύκαι</b> is prob. cj.) and Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span>l.c. (Prob. cogn. with μύξα A.) </span>

|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.