Μίλητος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μίλλατος (Míllatos) — Aeolic

Etymology

Of Anatolian origin, possibly related to the Hittite 𒈪𒂖𒆷𒉿𒀭𒁕 (Millawanda).

Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀍 (mi-ra-ti-jo, “Miletian”), 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀊 (mi-ra-ti-ja, “women from Miletus”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mǐː.lɛː.tos/ → /ˈmi.li.tos/ → /ˈmi.li.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mǐː.lɛː.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.le̝.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/

Proper noun

Μῑ́λητος • (Mī́lētos) f (genitive Μῑλήτου); second declension

1. Miletus, an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia.

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Μῑ́λητος; τῆς Μῑλήτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μῑ́λητος hē Mī́lētos
Genitive	τῆς Μῑλήτου tês Mīlḗtou
Dative	τῇ Μῑλήτῳ têi Mīlḗtōi
Accusative	τὴν Μῑ́λητον tḕn Mī́lēton
Vocative	Μῑ́λητε Mī́lēte
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Μιλήσιος (Milḗsios)

Descendants

• Greek: Μίλητος (Mílitos) (Militos)
• Latin: Mīlētus
• Polish: Milet
• Turkish: Milet

Further reading

• “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Μίλητος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3399 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN