μελίνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), tha same source of Latin milium (“millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lí.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈli.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μελίνη hē melínē |
τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā |
αἱ μελίναι hai melínai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μελίνης tês melínēs |
τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain |
τῶν μελινῶν tôn melinôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μελίνῃ têi melínēi |
τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain |
ταῖς μελίναις taîs melínais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μελίνην tḕn melínēn |
τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā |
τᾱ̀ς μελίνᾱς tā̀s melínās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μελίνη melínē |
μελίνᾱ melínā |
μελίναι melínai | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
| ||||||||||||
Further reading
- “μελίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μελίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 529
- μελίνη - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.