μελίμηλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lí.mɛː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈli.me̝.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈli.mi.lon/
Noun
μελῐ́μηλον • (melímēlon) n (genitive μελῐμήλου); second declension
- geniting, a variety of apple
- apple grafted on quince
- drink made from this apple
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μελῐ́μηλον; τοῦ μελῐμήλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μελῐ́μηλον tò melímēlon | τὼ μελῐμήλω tṑ melimḗlō | τᾰ̀ μελῐ́μηλᾰ tà melímēla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μελῐμήλου toû melimḗlou | τοῖν μελῐμήλοιν toîn melimḗloin | τῶν μελῐμήλων tôn melimḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μελῐμήλῳ tôi melimḗlōi | τοῖν μελῐμήλοιν toîn melimḗloin | τοῖς μελῐμήλοις toîs melimḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μελῐ́μηλον tò melímēlon | τὼ μελῐμήλω tṑ melimḗlō | τᾰ̀ μελῐ́μηλᾰ tà melímēla | ||||||||||
Vocative | μελῐ́μηλον melímēlon | μελῐμήλω melimḗlō | μελῐ́μηλᾰ melímēla | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: melimēlum
Further reading
- “μελίμηλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μελίμηλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette