μελάνθριξ

μέλᾱς (mélās, “black”, neuter: μέλᾰν (mélan)) +‎ θρῐ́ξ (thríx, “hair”, genitive: τρῐχός (trikhós))

μελᾰ́νθρῐξ • (melánthrix) m or f (genitive μελᾰνότρῐχος, no neuter); third declension

1. black-haired
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.19:

     πλῆθος μὲν οὖν τῶν νοσημάτων ἐγένετο. ἐκ δὲ τῶν καμνόντων ἀπέθνῃσκον μάλιστα μειράκια, νέοι, ἀκμάζοντες, λεῖοι, ὑπολευκόχρωτες, ἰθύτριχες, μελανότριχες, μελανόφθαλμοι, οἱ εἰκῇ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ῥᾴθυμον βεβιωκότες, ἰσχνόφωνοι, τρηχύφωνοι, τραυλοί, ὀργίλοι.

     plêthos mèn oûn tôn nosēmátōn egéneto. ek dè tôn kamnóntōn apéthnēiskon málista meirákia, néoi, akmázontes, leîoi, hupoleukókhrōtes, ithútrikhes, melanótrikhes, melanóphthalmoi, hoi eikêi kaì epì tò rhā́ithumon bebiōkótes, iskhnóphōnoi, trēkhúphōnoi, trauloí, orgíloi.

     • 1868 translation by William Henry Samuel Jones

       Now the number of illnesses was great. And of the patients there died chiefly striplings, young people, people in their prime, the smooth, the fair-skinned, the straight-haired, the black-haired, the black-eyed, those who had lived recklessly and care-lessly, the thin-voiced, the rough-voiced, the lispers, the passionate.

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 786a.25, (book V, chapter vi):

     Ἔτι δ’ αἱ γλῶτται διαφέρουσι τῶν ἁπλῶν τε καὶ ποικίλων καὶ τῶν ἁπλῶν μὲν διαφερόντων δέ, οἷον λευκῶν καὶ μελάνων. αἴτιον δὲ τὸ εἰρημένον πρότερον, ὅτι τὰ δέρματα ποικίλα τῶν ποικίλων, καὶ τῶν λευκοτρίχων καὶ τῶν μελανοτρίχων τῶν μὲν λευκὰ τῶν δὲ μέλανα.

     Éti d’ hai glôttai diaphérousi tôn haplôn te kaì poikílōn kaì tôn haplôn mèn diapheróntōn dé, hoîon leukôn kaì melánōn. aítion dè tò eirēménon próteron, hóti tà dérmata poikíla tôn poikílōn, kaì tôn leukotríkhōn kaì tôn melanotríkhōn tôn mèn leukà tôn dè mélana.

   • c. 300 B.C.E., Aristotle, Physiognomonics 808a.19, (a pseudo-Aristotelian treatise):

     εὐθύθριξ καὶ μελάνθριξ.

     euthúthrix kaì melánthrix.

• → Latin: ātricapillus (calque)

• “μελάνθριξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μελάνοθριξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press