μέλι
See also: μέλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *méli, 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
- honey
- anything sweet
Usage notes
μέλι (méli) is also sometimes used as the dative singular.
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ μέλῐ; τοῦ μέλῐτος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- θᾰλᾰσσόμελῐ (thalassómeli)
- μελῐ́γλωσσος (melíglōssos)
- μελῐ́κρᾱτον (melíkrāton)
- μελίμηλον (melímēlon)
- μελῐ́πτορθος (melíptorthos)
- μέλισσᾰ (mélissa)
- μελίτινος (melítinos)
- μελίφρων (melíphrōn)
- ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli)
Descendants
- Greek: μέλι (méli)
- Mariupol Greek: мел (mjel)
- → Hawaiian: meli
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- honey idem, page 404.
- syrup idem, page 851.
- μέλι - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.
Compare Mariupol Greek мел (mjel).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- Homophones: μέλει (mélei), μέλη (méli), μέλλει (méllei)
Noun
μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)
- honey
Declension
declension of μέλι
| case \\ number | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μέλι • | μέλια • |
| genitive | μελιού • | — |
| accusative | μέλι • | μέλια • |
| vocative | μέλι • | μέλια • |
Coordinate terms
- κυψέλη f (kypséli, “beehive”)
- κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “honeycomb”)
Related terms
- μέλισσα f (mélissa, “bee”)
- μελίσσι n (melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)
Further reading
μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- μέλι - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.