μελῳδία

See also: μελωδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μελῳδός (melōidós, “musical”) +‎ -ία (-ía), from μέλος (mélos) "musical phrase" + ᾠδή (ōidḗ), contracted form of ἀοιδή (aoidḗ) "song".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lɔːi̯.dí.aː/ → /me.loˈði.a/ → /me.loˈði.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.lɔːi̯.dí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me.loˈdi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /me.loˈði.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.loˈði.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.loˈði.a/

Noun

μελῳδῐ́ᾱ • (melōidíā) f (genitive μελῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. song, singing; chant; music, melody

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ hē melōidíā	τὼ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ melōidíā	αἱ μελῳδῐ́αι hai melōidíai
Genitive	τῆς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς tês melōidíās	τοῖν μελῳδῐ́αιν toîn melōidíain	τῶν μελῳδῐῶν tôn melōidiôn
Dative	τῇ μελῳδῐ́ᾳ têi melōidíāi	τοῖν μελῳδῐ́αιν toîn melōidíain	ταῖς μελῳδῐ́αις taîs melōidíais
Accusative	τὴν μελῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn melōidíān	τὼ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ melōidíā	τᾱ̀ς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s melōidíās
Vocative	μελῳδῐ́ᾱ melōidíā	μελῳδῐ́ᾱ melōidíā	μελῳδῐ́αι melōidíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μελωδία (melodía)
• → Latin: melōdia (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: մեղեդի (mełedi)
• Russian: мелодия (melodija)

Further reading

• “μελῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μελῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μελῳδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chant idem, page 124.
  • lay idem, page 480.
  • melody idem, page 524.
  • minstrelsy idem, page 531.
  • music idem, page 547.
  • song idem, page 793.
• “μελῳδία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011