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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mé.le/ → /ˈme.le/ → /ˈme.le/
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Noun
(ὦ) μέλε • ((ô) méle) (vocative only)
- friendly term of address for both sexes: my friend!
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
μέλε • (méle)
- inflection of μέλω (mélō):
- second-person singular present active imperative
- (Epic) third-person singular imperfect active indicative unaugmented
Further reading
- μέλε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μέλε”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μέλε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press