μέλι

See also: μέλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *méli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit. Cognates include Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.li/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/

Noun

μέλῐ • (méli) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension

honey
anything sweet

Usage notes

μέλι (méli) is also sometimes used as the dative singular.

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ μέλῐ; τοῦ μέλῐτος (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

θᾰλᾰσσόμελῐ (thalassómeli)
μελίμηλον (melímēlon)
μέλισσᾰ (mélissa)
Μελίτη (Melítē)
μελίτινος (melítinos)
μελίφρων (melíphrōn)
μελῐ́γλωσσος (melíglōssos)
μελῐ́κρᾱτον (melíkrāton)
μελῐ́πτορθος (melíptorthos)
ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli)

Descendants

Greek: μέλι (méli)
Mariupol Greek: мел (mjel)
→ Hawaiian: meli

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, 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.
- honey idem, page 404.
- syrup idem, page 851.
μέλι - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.

Compare Mariupol Greek мел (mjel).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/
Homophones: μέλει (mélei), μέλη (méli), μέλλει (méllei)

Noun

μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)

honey

Declension

declension of μέλι

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	μέλι •	μέλια •
genitive	μελιού •	—
accusative	μέλι •	μέλια •
vocative	μέλι •	μέλια •

Coordinate terms

κυψέλη f (kypséli, “beehive”)
κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “honeycomb”)

Related terms

μέλισσα f (mélissa, “bee”)
μελίσσι n (melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)

μέλι

Contents

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Coordinate terms

Related terms

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