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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of Anatolian origin, possibly related to the Hittite 𒈪𒂖𒆷𒉿𒀭𒁕 (Millawanda).[1]
Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀍 (mi-ra-ti-jo, “Miletian”), 𐀖𐀨𐀴𐀊 (mi-ra-ti-ja, “women from Miletus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǐː.lɛː.tos/ → /ˈmi.li.tos/ → /ˈmi.li.tos/
Proper noun
Μῑ́λητος • (Mī́lētos) f (genitive Μῑλήτου); second declension
- Miletus, an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia.
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Further reading
- “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μίλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μίλητος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- 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
- G3399 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN