μύκης

Traditionally taken to be a formation in -ητ- from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slip, slime”), the same root of Latin mūcus (“snivel”); for the development of meaning, confront Proto-Slavic *glìva (“fungus”) beside Lithuanian gléivės (“slime”), from *gleh₁y- (“to be smeary”). However, Furnée correctly remarks that the meanings of this word cannot all be explained by derivation from μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to snort, blow one's nose”). He assumes a basic meaning "prominence, extremity", as this word may also mean "stump of an olive tree". He connects the word with μύσκλοι (múskloi, “stalks of dried up fig trees”), which implies that the word is Pre-Greek.

μῠ́κης • (múkēs) m (genitive μῠ́κητος); third declension

1. mushroom or other fungus
2. any mushroom-shaped object, hence:
   1. chape or cap at the end of a scabbard
   2. membrum virile, penis
   3. fleshy excrescence, such as forms on wounds
   4. (botany) excrescence on trees
   5. stump of an olive cut down
   6. snuff of a lamp-wick

• μῠκήτῐνος (mukḗtinos)

• → Italian: micete
• Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)

• “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μύκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fungus idem, page 350.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μύκης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 977
• μύκης - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.