μελίνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), tha same source of Latin milium (“millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lí.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈli.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈli.ni/
Noun
μελίνη • (melínē) f (genitive μελίνης); first declension
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ μελίνη; τῆς μελίνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μελίνη hē melínē | τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā | αἱ μελίναι hai melínai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μελίνης tês melínēs | τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain | τῶν μελινῶν tôn melinôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μελίνῃ têi melínēi | τοῖν μελίναιν toîn melínain | ταῖς μελίναις taîs melínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μελίνην tḕn melínēn | τὼ μελίνᾱ tṑ melínā | τᾱ̀ς μελίνᾱς tā̀s melínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μελίνη melínē | μελίνᾱ melínā | μελίναι melínai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μελίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μελίνη 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, →ISBN