μέλι
See also: μέλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mélit. Cognates include Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.li/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.li/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
Usage notes
μέλι is also sometimes used as the dative singular.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μέλῐ tò méli |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélite |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tà mélita | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μέλῐτος toû mélitos |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melítoin |
τῶν μελῐ́των tôn melítōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μέλῐτῐ tôi méliti |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melítoin |
τοῖς μέλῐσῐ / μέλῐσῐν toîs mélisi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μέλῐ tò méli |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélite |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tà mélita | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέλῐ méli |
μέλῐτε mélite |
μέλῐτᾰ mélita | ||||||||||
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References
- μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μέλι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέλι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέλι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μέλι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3192 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.
Declension
Further reading
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