Μελάνιππος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέλᾱς (mélās, “dark; black”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.lá.nip.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈla.nip.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈla.ni.pos/
Proper noun
Μελᾰ́νῐππος • (Melánippos) m (genitive Μελᾰνῐ́ππου); second declension
- a male given name: Melanippus
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Μελᾰ́νῐππος ho Melánippos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Μελᾰνῐ́ππου toû Melaníppou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Μελᾰνῐ́ππῳ tôi Melaníppōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Μελᾰ́νῐππον tòn Melánippon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μελᾰ́νῐππε Melánippe | ||||||||||||
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Related terms
- Μελᾰνῐ́ππη (Melaníppē)
Descendants
- Greek: Μελάνιππος (Melánippos)
- Latin: Melanippus
Further reading
- “Μελάνιππος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Μελάνιππος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017