μελίνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), tha same source of Latin milium (“millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lí.nɛː/ → /meˈli.ni/ → /meˈli.ni/

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

Noun

μελίνη • (melínē) f (genitive μελίνης); first declension

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μελίνη; τῆς μελίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μελίνη hē melínē	τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā	αἱ μελίναι hai melínai
Genitive	τῆς μελίνης tês melínēs	τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain	τῶν μελινῶν tôn melinôn
Dative	τῇ μελίνῃ têi melínēi	τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain	ταῖς μελίναις taîs melínais
Accusative	τὴν μελίνην tḕn melínēn	τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā	τᾱ̀ς μελίνᾱς tā̀s melínās
Vocative	μελίνη melínē	μελίνᾱ melínā	μελίναι melínai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μελίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μελίνη 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 529
• “μελίνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011