μίλτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /míl.tos/ → /ˈmil.tos/ → /ˈmil.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /míl.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/

Noun

μίλτος • (míltos) f (genitive μίλτου); second declension

1. ruddle, red ochre
2. red lead
3. rust in plants
4. a taboo word for blood

Declension

Second declension of ἡ μῐ́λτος; τῆς μῐ́λτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́λτος hē míltos	τὼ μῐ́λτω tṑ míltō	αἱ μῐ́λτοι hai míltoi
Genitive	τῆς μῐ́λτου tês míltou	τοῖν μῐ́λτοιν toîn míltoin	τῶν μῐ́λτων tôn míltōn
Dative	τῇ μῐ́λτῳ têi míltōi	τοῖν μῐ́λτοιν toîn míltoin	ταῖς μῐ́λτοις taîs míltois
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́λτον tḕn mílton	τὼ μῐ́λτω tṑ míltō	τᾱ̀ς μῐ́λτους tā̀s míltous
Vocative	μῐ́λτε mílte	μῐ́λτω míltō	μῐ́λτοι míltoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μιλτάριον (miltárion)
• μιλτεῖον (milteîon)
• μίλτειος (mílteios)
• Μιλτιάδης (Miltiádēs)
• μίλτινος (míltinos)
• μιλτίτης (miltítēs)
• μιλτοπάρῃος (miltopárēios)
• μιλτόω (miltóō)
• μιλτώδης (miltṓdēs)
• σύμμιλτος (súmmiltos)

 

Further reading

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