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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μῠ́στης (mústēs, “initiated one”) + -ῐον (-ion), from μυέω (muéō, “I initiate”), from μῡ́ω (mū́ō, “I shut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mys.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /mysˈti.ri.on/ → /misˈti.ri.on/
Noun
μῠστήρῐον • (mustḗrion) n (genitive μῠστηρῐ́ου); second declension
- revealed secret
- mystery, secret
- object used in mystery religions
- (Koine) matters of science which required teaching
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυστήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυστήριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3466 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible