μελίκρατον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μελῐ́κρητον (melíkrēton) – Ionic
Etymology
From μέλι (méli, “honey”) + κεράννῡμι (keránnūmi, “to mix, mingle”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lí.kraː.ton/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈli.kra.ton/
Noun
μελῐ́κρᾱτον • (melíkrāton) n (genitive μελῐκρᾱ́του); second declension
- drink of honey and milk offered as a libation to the powers of the netherworld
- sort of mixture of water and honey
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον; τοῦ μελῐκρᾱ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον tò melíkrāton | τὼ μελῐκρᾱ́τω tṑ melikrā́tō | τᾰ̀ μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ tà melíkrāta | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μελῐκρᾱ́του toû melikrā́tou | τοῖν μελῐκρᾱ́τοιν toîn melikrā́toin | τῶν μελῐκρᾱ́των tôn melikrā́tōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μελῐκρᾱ́τῳ tôi melikrā́tōi | τοῖν μελῐκρᾱ́τοιν toîn melikrā́toin | τοῖς μελῐκρᾱ́τοις toîs melikrā́tois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μελῐ́κρᾱτον tò melíkrāton | τὼ μελῐκρᾱ́τω tṑ melikrā́tō | τᾰ̀ μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ tà melíkrāta | ||||||||||
Vocative | μελῐ́κρᾱτον melíkrāton | μελῐκρᾱ́τω melikrā́tō | μελῐ́κρᾱτᾰ melíkrāta | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: melicrātum
Further reading
- “μελίκρατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μελίκρατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μελίκρατον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette