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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mysticus (feminine mystica, neuter mysticum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or belonging to secret rites or mysteries.
- mystic, mystical
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “mysticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mysticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mysticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mysticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.