μέλι
See also: μέλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mélit. Cognates include Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.li/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
Noun
μέλῐ • (méli) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension
Usage notes
μέλι is also sometimes used as the dative singular.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μέλῐ tò méli |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélite |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tà mélita | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μέλῐτος toû mélitos |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melítoin |
τῶν μελῐ́των tôn melítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μέλῐτῐ tôi méliti |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melítoin |
τοῖς μέλῐσῐ / μέλῐσῐν toîs mélisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μέλῐ tò méli |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélite |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tà mélita | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέλῐ méli |
μέλῐτε mélite |
μέλῐτᾰ mélita | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέλι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέλι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέλι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μέλι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3192 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mélid.
Pronunciation
Homophones: μέλει (mélei), μέλη (méli), μέλλει (méllei)
Noun
μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)
Declension
Declension of μέλι
Coordinate terms
Related terms
Further reading
μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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