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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin mustāceus.
Noun
μουστάκια • (moustákia) n pl (genitive μουστακίων); second declension
- (Byzantine) mustaceus (a kind of wedding cake made with must and baked on laurel leaves)
Declension
Further reading
- μουστάκια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μουστάκιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “μουστάκια”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μουστάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “μουστάκια”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 771
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
μουστάκια • (moustákia)
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of μουστάκιον (moustákion)
Greek
Noun
μουστάκια • (moustákia) n
- whiskers
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of μουστάκι (moustáki)