# μύξα
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Latin mucus, Old Norse mjúkr (“soft, meek”), Latvian mulks (“marshy”). The traditionally compared μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”) is likely not related.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mýk.sa/ → /ˈmyk.sa/ → /ˈmik.sa/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mýk.sa/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈmik.sa/

#### Noun

μῠ́ξᾰ • (mŭ́xă) f (genitive μῠ́ξης); first declension
* mucus, discharge from the nose
    Synonyms: βλέννα (blénna), κόρυζα (kóruza), λέμφος (lémphos)
* slime of certain fish and snails

##### Derived terms

* μυκτήρ (muktḗr)
* μῠξᾰ́ζω (mŭxắzō)
* μῠξᾰ́ρῐον (mŭxắrĭon)
* μῠξῖνος (mŭxînos)
* μῠξοποιός (mŭxopoiós)
* μῠξόρροος (mŭxórrhoos)
* μῠξώδης (mŭxṓdēs)
* μῠ́ξων (mŭ́xōn)
* μῠξωτῆρες (mŭxōtêres)

### Etymology 2

The origin is unknown. Compare μυσκλον (musklon, “sebesten”), Armenian մամուխ (mamux, “sloe”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mýk.sa/ → /ˈmyk.sa/ → /ˈmik.sa/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mýk.sa/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈmyk.sa/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈmik.sa/

#### Noun

μῠ́ξᾰ • (mŭ́xă) n pl (genitive μῠ́ξων); second declension
* sebesten (Cordia myxa)

##### Descendants

* → Latin: myxa

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύξα 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 981
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύσσομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 985-6
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύξα 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 981

### Further reading

* “μύξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μύξα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* μύξα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 13–17
* “μύξα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus”), which shares an origin with μύκης (múkēs, “fungus, mushroom”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”). Cognates include Latin mucus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiksa/
* Hyphenation: μύ‧ξα

### Noun

μύξα • (mýxa) f (plural μύξες)
* (colloquial, familiar) snot, booger, bogey (nasal mucus)
    Σταματά να τρως τις μύξες σου.Stamatá na tros tis mýxes sou.Stop eating your snot.
* (colloquial, humorous, figuratively) snot, slob (any slovenly person who causes disgust)
    Μην τρως το φαΐ που έφτιαξε αυτή η μύξα.Min tros to faḯ pou éftiaxe aftí i mýxa.Don't eat the food that slob made you.

#### Synonyms

* φλέγμα n (flégma) (official term)