μύλλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μύλος (múlos)

Etymology

The etymology remains unknown, as the connection with μέλας (mélas, “dark in color”) is a pure hypothesis.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mýl.los/ → /ˈmyl.los/ → /ˈmi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mýl.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmyl.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmyl.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmyl.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.los/

Noun

μύλλος • (múllos) m (genitive μύλλου); second declension

1. A kind of fish brought salted from the Black Sea
2. A similar fish found in the Danube

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῠ́λλος; τοῦ μῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῠ́λλος ho múllos	τὼ μῠ́λλω tṑ múllō	οἱ μῠ́λλοι hoi múlloi
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́λλου toû múllou	τοῖν μῠ́λλοιν toîn múlloin	τῶν μῠ́λλων tôn múllōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́λλῳ tôi múllōi	τοῖν μῠ́λλοιν toîn múlloin	τοῖς μῠ́λλοις toîs múllois
Accusative	τὸν μῠ́λλον tòn múllon	τὼ μῠ́λλω tṑ múllō	τοὺς μῠ́λλους toùs múllous
Vocative	μῠ́λλε múlle	μῠ́λλω múllō	μῠ́λλοι múlloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mullus
  • Catalan: moll
  • Old French: mulet
    • → English: mullet
    • French: mulet
  • Translingual: Mullus

Further reading

• “μύλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μύλλος 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