μελία
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLikely from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.
The old comparison with Lithuanian smelùs (“sand colored”) starts from the grey color of the wood. Perhaps the word is Pre-Greek, in view of the various forms in "-ινος".
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈli.a/
Noun
editμελίᾱ • (melíā) f (genitive μελίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μελίᾱ hē melíā |
τὼ μελίᾱ tṑ melíā |
αἱ μελίαι hai melíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μελίᾱς tês melíās |
τοῖν μελίαιν toîn melíain |
τῶν μελιῶν tôn meliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μελίᾳ têi melíāi |
τοῖν μελίαιν toîn melíain |
ταῖς μελίαις taîs melíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μελίᾱν tḕn melíān |
τὼ μελίᾱ tṑ melíā |
τᾱ̀ς μελίᾱς tā̀s melíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μελίᾱ melíā |
μελίᾱ melíā |
μελίαι melíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “μελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μελία 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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