μίλτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /míl.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmil.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmil.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmil.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmil.tos/
Noun
μίλτος • (míltos) f (genitive μίλτου); second declension
- ruddle, red ochre
- red lead
- rust in plants
- a taboo word for blood
Declension
Second declension of ἡ μῐ́λτος; τῆς μῐ́λτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μιλτεῖον (milteîon)
- μιλτάριον (miltárion)
- μίλτειος (mílteios)
- μίλτινος (míltinos)
- μιλτώδης (miltṓdēs)
- μιλτίτης (miltítēs)
- μιλτόω (miltóō)
- Μιλτιάδης (Miltiádēs)
- μιλτοπάρῃος (miltopárēios)
- 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