Μίλητος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Μίλλατος (Míllatos) – Aeolic
Etymology
Possibly related to the Hittite 𒈪𒂖𒆷𒉿𒀭𒁕 (Millawanda).[1]
Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀍 (mi-ra-ti-jo, “Miletian”), 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀊 (mi-ra-ti-ja, “women from Miletus”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mǐː.lɛː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.le̝.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li.tos/
Proper noun
Μῑ́λητος • (Mī́lētos) f (genitive Μῑλήτου); second declension
- Miletus, an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia.
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ Μῑ́λητος; τῆς Μῑλήτου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Μῑ́λητος hē Mī́lētos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Μῑλήτου tês Mīlḗtou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Μῑλήτῳ têi Mīlḗtōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Μῑ́λητον tḕn Mī́lēton | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μῑ́λητε Mī́lēte | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μιλήσιος (Milḗsios)
Descendants
- Greek: Μίλητος (Mílitos) (Militos)
- Latin: Mīlētus
- Polish: Milet
- Turkish: Milet
References
- Beckman, Gary M. The Ahhiyawa texts. Atlanta, Ga. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31289.0001.001
Further reading
- “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μίλητος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- 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
- G3399 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, page 1,017
- Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN