μέλι
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *méli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”). Cognates include Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.li/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
Noun
μέλῐ • (méli) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension
Usage notes
μέλι (méli) is also sometimes used as the dative singular.
Inflection
| 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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θᾰλᾰσσόμελῐ (thalassómeli)
- μελῐ́γλωσσος (melíglōssos)
- μελῐ́κρᾱτον (melíkrāton)
- μελίμηλον (melímēlon)
- μελῐ́πτορθος (melíptorthos)
- μέλισσᾰ (mélissa)
- Μελίτη (Melítē)
- μελίτινος (melítinos)
- μελίφρων (melíphrōn)
- ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli)
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μέλι, -ιτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 925-6
Further reading
- “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.
- “μέλι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.
Compare Mariupol Greek мел (mjel).
Pronunciation
Noun
μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
| genitive | μελιού (melioú) | - |
| accusative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
| vocative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
Coordinate terms
Related terms
Further reading
μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- μέλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
