μυκτήρ

From μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”), the same root of μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), μύξα (múxa, “mucus, slime”) and Latin mucus.

μῠκτήρ • (muktḗr) m (genitive μῠκτῆρος); third declension

1. (in the plural) nostril

   Synonym: ῥώθων (rhṓthōn)

2. nozzle of a lamp
3. (zoology) elephant's trunk
4. (zoology) funnel of the cuttlefish
5. (figuratively) sneerer, scorner
6. (in the abstract) sarcasm, raillery

• Greek: μυκτήρ (myktír)

• “μυκτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυκτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μυκτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

From Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr), from μύσσομαι (mússomai, “I blow my nose”). Related to μύξα (múxa, “snot, booger”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈktir/
• Hyphenation: μυ‧κτήρ

μυκτήρ • (myktír) m (plural μυκτήρες)

1. (anatomy, formal, archaic, Katharevousa) nostril (either of the two orifices located on the nose)

• ρουθούνι n (routhoúni, “nostril”) (everyday term)

• μυκτηρίζω (myktirízo, “to sniff at contemptuously, to disparage”)