μήλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Prellwitz proposed a derivation from the root of μαίομαι (maíomai, “to touch, examine”). Possible, but uncertain.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li/
Noun
μήλη • (mḗlē) f (genitive μήλης); first declension
- (surgery) surgical probe
Inflection
First declension of ἡ μήλη; τῆς μήλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μήλη hē mḗlē | τὼ μήλᾱ tṑ mḗlā | αἱ μῆλαι hai mêlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μήλης tês mḗlēs | τοῖν μήλαιν toîn mḗlain | τῶν μηλῶν tôn mēlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μήλῃ têi mḗlēi | τοῖν μήλαιν toîn mḗlain | ταῖς μήλαις taîs mḗlais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μήλην tḕn mḗlēn | τὼ μήλᾱ tṑ mḗlā | τᾱ̀ς μήλᾱς tā̀s mḗlās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μήλη mḗlē | μήλᾱ mḗlā | μῆλαι mêlai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμφίμηλον (amphímēlon)
- μηλαφάω (mēlapháō)
- μηλόω (mēlóō)
- μηλωθρον (mēlōthron)
- μήλωσις (mḗlōsis)
- μηλωτή (mēlōtḗ)
- μηλωτίς (mēlōtís)
- μηλωτρίδιον (mēlōtrídion)
- μηλωτρίς (mēlōtrís)
- πλατυμήλη (platumḗlē)
Descendants
- → Arabic: مَيْل (mayl)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میل (mil)
References
- “μήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μήλη 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