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μέλαν

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλαν μέλανος

Structure: μελαν (Stem)

Etym.: me/las

Sense

  1. black pigment, ink

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "μὴ γεύεσθαι μελανούρων" τουτέστι μὴ συνδιατρίβειν μέλασιν ἀνθρώποισ διὰ κακοήθειαν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 175)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸσ ἡμέρᾳ τρίτῃ κατὰ τοὺσ ὕπνουσ ἰδεῖν ὄψιν ἄτοπον δόξαι γὰρ αὑτῷ τόν Κλεῖτον μετὰ τῶν Παρμενίωνοσ υἱῶν ἐν μέλασιν ἱματίοισ καθέζεσθαι, τεθνηκότων ἁπάντων. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 50 3:3)
  • καὶ αἱ γυναῖκεσ αὐτῶν, ἃ νόμοσ ἐστὶν αὐταῖσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἰδίοισ τε καὶ ἀναγκαίοισ ποιεῖν κήδεσιν, ἀποθέμεναι χρυσόν τε καὶ πορφύραν καὶ τὸν ἄλλον ἅπαντα κόσμον μέλασιν ἀμφιασμοῖσ χρώμεναι τὸν ἐνιαύσιον ἐπένθησαν χρόνον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 62 3:3)
  • ἠκολούθουν δ’ αὐτοῖσ οἱ θεράποντεσ ἐπὶ κλίνησ μέλασιν ἀμφίοισ ἐστρωμένησ κομίζοντεσ ἀθεράπευτόν τε καὶ πεφυρμένην αἵματι τὴν νεκράν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 76 4:3)
  • τοὺσ δὲ περὶ τὸν Θησέα φασὶ διὰ τὴν ἁρπαγὴν τῆσ κόρησ δυσφοροῦντασ ἰσχυρῶσ, καὶ διὰ τὴν λύπην ἐπιλαθομένουσ τῆσ Αἰγέωσ παραγγελίασ, τοῖσ μέλασιν ἱστίοισ καταπλεῖν εἰσ τὴν Ἀττικήν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 61 6:1)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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