Μελάνιππος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέλᾱς (mélās, “dark; black”) +‎ ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lá.nip.pos/ → /meˈla.nip.pos/ → /meˈla.ni.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.lá.nip.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈla.ni.pos/

Proper noun

Μελᾰ́νῐππος • (Melánippos) m (genitive Μελᾰνῐ́ππου); second declension

1. a male given name: Melanippus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Μελᾰ́νῐππος; τοῦ Μελᾰνῐ́ππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Μελᾰ́νῐππος ho Melánippos
Genitive	τοῦ Μελᾰνῐ́ππου toû Melaníppou
Dative	τῷ Μελᾰνῐ́ππῳ tôi Melaníppōi
Accusative	τὸν Μελᾰ́νῐππον tòn Melánippon
Vocative	Μελᾰ́νῐππε Melánippe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Μελᾰνῐ́ππη (Melaníppē)

Descendants

• Greek: Μελάνιππος (Melánippos)
• Latin: Melanippus

Further reading

• “Μελάνιππος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Μελάνιππος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017