μελίμηλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέλι (méli, “honey”) +‎ μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lí.mɛː.lon/ → /meˈli.mi.lon/ → /meˈli.mi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.lí.mɛː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈli.me̝.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/

Noun

μελῐ́μηλον • (melímēlon) n (genitive μελῐμήλου); second declension

1. geniting, a variety of apple
2. apple grafted on quince
3. drink made from this apple

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μελῐ́μηλον; τοῦ μελῐμήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μελῐ́μηλον tò melímēlon	τὼ μελῐμήλω tṑ melimḗlō	τᾰ̀ μελῐ́μηλᾰ tà melímēla
Genitive	τοῦ μελῐμήλου toû melimḗlou	τοῖν μελῐμήλοιν toîn melimḗloin	τῶν μελῐμήλων tôn melimḗlōn
Dative	τῷ μελῐμήλῳ tôi melimḗlōi	τοῖν μελῐμήλοιν toîn melimḗloin	τοῖς μελῐμήλοις toîs melimḗlois
Accusative	τὸ μελῐ́μηλον tò melímēlon	τὼ μελῐμήλω tṑ melimḗlō	τᾰ̀ μελῐ́μηλᾰ tà melímēla
Vocative	μελῐ́μηλον melímēlon	μελῐμήλω melimḗlō	μελῐ́μηλᾰ melímēla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: melimēlum

Further reading

• “μελίμηλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μελίμηλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette