μελῳδία
See also: μελωδία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μελῳδός (melōidós, “musical”) + -ία (-ía), from μέλος (mélos) "musical phrase" + ᾠδή (ōidḗ), contracted form of ἀοιδή (aoidḗ) "song".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lɔːi̯.dí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.loˈdi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.loˈði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.loˈði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.loˈði.a/
Noun
μελῳδῐ́ᾱ • (melōidíā) f (genitive μελῳδῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- song, singing; chant; music, melody
Inflection
First declension of ἡ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ hē melōidíā | τὼ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ melōidíā | αἱ μελῳδῐ́αι hai melōidíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς tês melōidíās | τοῖν μελῳδῐ́αιν toîn melōidíain | τῶν μελῳδῐῶν tôn melōidiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μελῳδῐ́ᾳ têi melōidíāi | τοῖν μελῳδῐ́αιν toîn melōidíain | ταῖς μελῳδῐ́αις taîs melōidíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μελῳδῐ́ᾱν tḕn melōidíān | τὼ μελῳδῐ́ᾱ tṑ melōidíā | τᾱ̀ς μελῳδῐ́ᾱς tā̀s melōidíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μελῳδῐ́ᾱ melōidíā | μελῳδῐ́ᾱ melōidíā | μελῳδῐ́αι melōidíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: μελωδία (melodía)
- → Latin: melōdia (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: մեղեդի (mełedi)
- Russian: мелодия (melodija)
Further reading
- “μελῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μελῳδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μελῳδία 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.
- chant idem, page 124.
- lay idem, page 480.
- melody idem, page 524.
- minstrelsy idem, page 531.
- music idem, page 547.
- song idem, page 793.