μελίκρατον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μελῐ́κρητον (melíkrēton) — Ionic

Etymology

From μέλι (méli, “honey”) +‎ κεράννῡμι (keránnūmi, “to mix, mingle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lí.kraː.ton/ → /meˈli.kra.ton/ → /meˈli.kra.ton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.lí.kraː.ton/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/

Noun

μελῐ́κρᾱτον • (melíkrāton) n (genitive μελῐκρᾱ́του); second declension

1. drink of honey and milk offered as a libation to the powers of the netherworld
2. sort of mixture of water and honey

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον; τοῦ μελῐκρᾱ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον tò melíkrāton	τὼ μελῐκρᾱ́τω tṑ melikrā́tō	τᾰ̀ μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ tà melíkrāta
Genitive	τοῦ μελῐκρᾱ́του toû melikrā́tou	τοῖν μελῐκρᾱ́τοιν toîn melikrā́toin	τῶν μελῐκρᾱ́των tôn melikrā́tōn
Dative	τῷ μελῐκρᾱ́τῳ tôi melikrā́tōi	τοῖν μελῐκρᾱ́τοιν toîn melikrā́toin	τοῖς μελῐκρᾱ́τοις toîs melikrā́tois
Accusative	τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον tò melíkrāton	τὼ μελῐκρᾱ́τω tṑ melikrā́tō	τᾰ̀ μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ tà melíkrāta
Vocative	μελῐ́κρᾱτον melíkrāton	μελῐκρᾱ́τω melikrā́tō	μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ melíkrāta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: melicrātum

Further reading

• “μελίκρατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μελίκρατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μελίκρατον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette