μηλέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῆλον (mêlon) +‎ -έᾱ (-éā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.lé.aː/ → /miˈle.a/ → /miˈle.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.lé.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈle.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈle.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈle.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈle.a/

Noun

μηλέᾱ • (mēléā) f (genitive μηλέᾱς); first declension

1. apple tree

Declension

First declension of ἡ μηλέᾱ; τῆς μηλέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μηλέᾱ hē mēléā	τὼ μηλέᾱ tṑ mēléā	αἱ μηλέαι hai mēléai
Genitive	τῆς μηλέᾱς tês mēléās	τοῖν μηλέαιν toîn mēléain	τῶν μηλεῶν tôn mēleôn
Dative	τῇ μηλέᾳ tēî mēléāi	τοῖν μηλέαιν toîn mēléain	ταῖς μηλέαις taîs mēléais
Accusative	τὴν μηλέᾱν tḕn mēléān	τὼ μηλέᾱ tṑ mēléā	τᾱ̀ς μηλέᾱς tā̀s mēléās
Vocative	μηλέᾱ mēléā	μηλέᾱ mēléā	μηλέαι mēléai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: μηλιά (miliá)
• Italiot Greek: milèa
• → Latin: mālus
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mēlus
    • Aromanian: mer
    • Italian: melo
    • Megleno-Romanian: mer
    • Romanian: măr
  • → English: malus
  • → Translingual: Malus (learned)
• → Vulgar Latin: *mēlus
  • Aromanian: mer
  • Italian: melo
  • Megleno-Romanian: mer
  • Romanian: măr

Further reading

• “μηλέα” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μηλέα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μηλέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μηλέα in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn