μίξις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • μῖξῐς (mîxis), μεῖξῐς (meîxis)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *míḱtis, from the root *meyḱ- ~ *meyǵ- (“to mix”) +‎ *-tis.[1] Cognate with Lithuanian mìšti, Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌 (mišti). Compare μίγνυμι (mígnumi, “I mix”), from the same root.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μῐ́ξῐς • (míxis) f (genitive μῐ́ξεως); third declension

  1. a mixing, mingling
  2. intercourse
    1. sexual intercourse
    2. commerce

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ μῐ́ξῐς; τῆς μῐ́ξεως (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ μῐ́ξῐς
hē míxis		 τὼ μῐ́ξει
tṑ míxei		 αἱ μῐ́ξεις
hai míxeis
Genitive τῆς μῐ́ξεως
tês míxeōs		 τοῖν μῐξέοιν
toîn mixéoin		 τῶν μῐ́ξεων
tôn míxeōn
Dative τῇ μῐ́ξει
têi míxei		 τοῖν μῐξέοιν
toîn mixéoin		 ταῖς μῐ́ξεσῐ / μῐ́ξεσῐν
taîs míxesi(n)
Accusative τὴν μῐ́ξῐν
tḕn míxin		 τὼ μῐ́ξει
tṑ míxei		 τᾱ̀ς μῐ́ξεις
tā̀s míxeis
Vocative μῐ́ξῐ
míxi		 μῐ́ξει
míxei		 μῐ́ξεις
míxeis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References
  1. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*mei̯k̂-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 481–482
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