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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), tha same source of Latin milium (“millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.lí.nɛː/ → /meˈli.ni/ → /meˈli.ni/
Noun
μελίνη • (melínē) f (genitive μελίνης); first declension
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
Inflection
Further reading
- “μελίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μελίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 529
- “μελίνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011