Etymology

From μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs, “one who has been initiated”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós)Category:Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ικός#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣ.

Pronunciation

Adjective

μῠστῐκός • (mŭstĭkós) m (feminine μῠστῐκή, neuter μῠστῐκόν)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek adjectives#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣ; first/second declension

1. secret, mystic

References

• “μυστικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυστικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μυστικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μυστικός 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • initiatory idem, page 441.
  • mystery idem, page 549.
  • mystic idem, page 549.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mystic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• μυστικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Greek learned borrowings from Ancient Greek#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣ μυστικός (mustikós).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

μυστικός • (mystikós) m (feminine μυστική, neuter μυστικό)Category:Greek lemmas#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Greek adjectives#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΜΥΣΤΙΚΟΣ

1. mystic, secret, clandestine, hidden, private

Further reading

• μυστικός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language