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mystery

/ˈmɪstəi/MIH-stur-ee
/ˈmɪstɚi/MIH-stur-ee

Meaninga secret rite

Common meaning: something unexplained

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MU‘bind, close, shut up, enclose’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 275, p. 740 · scan
  2. Greekμύστης‘one admitted to secret rites’
  3. Middle Englishmysteriesource
  4. Englishmystery‘something unexplained’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek μύστης ‘one admitted to secret rites’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry μύστης, p. 523 · dictionary scan

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