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 | ||||||||||
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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”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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