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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin mystērium. Doublet of mystery.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪˈstɪəɹɪəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɪˈstɪɹiəm/
- Hyphenation: mys‧te‧ri‧um
Noun[edit]
mysterium (plural mysteria)
- (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 263:
- There are many such mysteria: milk is a mysterium of cheese and butter, and cheese in turn a mysterium of maggots, which were thought to form spontaneously in rotting food.
- (astronomy, now historical) The hypothetical source of a galactic radio emission at 1665 megahertz (later identified as due to hydroxyl radicals in interstellar space).
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῠστήρῐον (mustḗrion).
Noun[edit]
mystērium n (genitive mystēriī or mystērī); second declension
- mystery (secret rite or worship)
- secret
- 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza:
- Vexilla regis prodeunt
Fulget crucis mysterium
Quo carne carnis conditor,
Suspensus est patibulo.- The Banners of the King issue forth,
the mystery of the Cross does gleam,
where the Creator of flesh, in the flesh,
from the cross-bar is hung.
- The Banners of the King issue forth,
- 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza:
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mystērium | mystēria |
| Genitive | mystēriī mystērī1 |
mystēriōrum |
| Dative | mystēriō | mystēriīs |
| Accusative | mystērium | mystēria |
| Ablative | mystēriō | mystēriīs |
| Vocative | mystērium | mystēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References[edit]
- “mysterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mysterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mysterium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin mystērium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion).
Noun[edit]
mysterium n (definite singular mysteriet, indefinite plural mysterier, definite plural mysteria or mysteriene)
- a mystery
References[edit]
- “mysterium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin mystērium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion).
Noun[edit]
mysterium n (definite singular mysteriet, indefinite plural mysterium, definite plural mysteria)
- mystery (something unexplainable)
- Korleis steinen hamna her er eit mysterium.
- How the rock got here is a mystery.
References[edit]
- “mysterium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin mystērium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion). Cognate with English mystery and German Mysterium.
Noun[edit]
mysterium n
- a mystery
Declension[edit]
| Declension of mysterium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | mysterium | mysteriet | mysterier | mysterierna |
| Genitive | mysteriums | mysteriets | mysteriers | mysteriernas |
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