μελέτη
See also: Μελέτη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μελέτα (meléta) – Doric, Aeolic
Etymology
Related to μέλω (mélō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lé.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈle.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈle.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈle.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈle.ti/
Noun
μελέτη • (melétē) f (genitive μελέτης); first declension
- care, attention
- practice, exercise
Declension
First declension of ἡ μελέτη; τῆς μελέτης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μελέτη hē melétē | τὼ μελέτᾱ tṑ melétā | αἱ μελέται hai melétai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μελέτης tês melétēs | τοῖν μελέταιν toîn melétain | τῶν μελετῶν tôn meletôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μελέτῃ têi melétēi | τοῖν μελέταιν toîn melétain | ταῖς μελέταις taîs melétais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μελέτην tḕn melétēn | τὼ μελέτᾱ tṑ melétā | τᾱ̀ς μελέτᾱς tā̀s melétās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μελέτη melétē | μελέτᾱ melétā | μελέται melétai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μελετάω (meletáō)
Further reading
- “μελέτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μελέτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μελέτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- application idem, page 36.
- assiduity idem, page 46.
- attention idem, page 51.
- care idem, page 113.
- diligence idem, page 224.
- discipline idem, page 229.
- exercise idem, page 291.
- heed idem, page 394.
- pain idem, page 588.
- perseverance idem, page 607.
- practice idem, page 631.
- regard idem, page 686.
- rehearsal idem, page 688.
- sedulousness idem, page 748.
- training idem, page 887.