μύλλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μύλος (múlos)
Etymology
The etymology remains unknown, as the connection with μέλας (mélas, “dark in color”) is a pure hypothesis.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýl.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmyl.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmyl.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmyl.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.los/
Noun
μύλλος • (múllos) m (genitive μύλλου); second declension
- A kind of fish brought salted from the Black Sea
- A similar fish found in the Danube
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μῠ́λλος; τοῦ μῠ́λλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠ́λλος ho múllos | τὼ μῠ́λλω tṑ múllō | οἱ μῠ́λλοι hoi múlloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠ́λλου toû múllou | τοῖν μῠ́λλοιν toîn múlloin | τῶν μῠ́λλων tôn múllōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠ́λλῳ tôi múllōi | τοῖν μῠ́λλοιν toîn múlloin | τοῖς μῠ́λλοις toîs múllois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠ́λλον tòn múllon | τὼ μῠ́λλω tṑ múllō | τοὺς μῠ́λλους toùs múllous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠ́λλε múlle | μῠ́λλω múllō | μῠ́λλοι múlloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: mullus
- Catalan: moll
- Old French: mulet
- → English: mullet
- French: mulet
- Translingual: Mullus
Further reading
- “μύλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύλλος 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