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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μελάνθιος (Melánthios).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Melanthius m sg (genitive Melanthiī or Melanthī); second declension
- A Greek painter
- (Greek mythology) The disloyal goatherd of Ulysses
- A small river on the coast of Pontus
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- Melanthius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Melanthius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly