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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μελίβοια (Melíboia).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Meliboea f sg (genitive Meliboeae); first declension
- A town of Thessaly situated on the coast near Mount Ossa
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Meliboea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Meliboea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Meliboea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly