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μελανία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελανία

Structure: μελανι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: me/las

Sense

  1. blackness: a black cloud

Declension

First 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

  • ἔτι ὅσα πάθη τῶν κινουμένων οὐσιῶν, οἱο͂ν θερμότησ καὶ ψυχρότησ, καὶ λευκότησ καὶ μελανία, καὶ βαρύτησ καὶ κουφότησ, καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα, καθ’ ἃ λέγονται καὶ ἀλλοιοῦσθαι τὰ σώματα μεταβαλλόντων. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 168:3)
  • καίτοι καθ’ αὑτὸ τοῦ ζῴου αὕτη ἡ διαφορὰ καὶ οὐχ ὡσ λευκότησ ἢ μελανία ἀλλ’ ᾗ ζῷον καὶ τὸ θῆλυ καὶ τὸ ἄρρεν ὑπάρχει. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 10 129:1)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἡ ἀπορία αὕτη σχεδὸν ἡ αὐτὴ καὶ διὰ τί ἡ μὲν ποιεῖ τῷ εἴδει ἕτερα ἐναντίωσισ ἡ δ’ οὔ, οἱο͂ν τὸ πεζὸν καὶ τὸ πτερωτόν, λευκότησ δὲ καὶ μελανία οὔ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 10 129:2)
  • διὸ ἀνθρώπου λευκότησ οὐ ποιεῖ οὐδὲ μελανία, οὐδὲ τοῦ λευκοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔστι διαφορὰ κατ’ εἶδοσ πρὸσ μέλανα ἄνθρωπον, οὐδ’ ἂν ὄνομα ἓν τεθῇ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 10 132:1)
  • ἡνίκα δὲ δείλη ἐγίγνετο, ἐφάνη κονιορτὸσ ὥσπερ νεφέλη λευκή, χρόνῳ δὲ συχνῷ ὕστερον ὥσπερ μελανία τισ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ ἐπὶ πολύ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 9:2)
  • ἔστι πονηρευόμενοσ συγκεκυφὼσ μελανίᾳ, καὶ τὰ ἐντὸσ αὐτοῦ πλήρησ δόλου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 19:26)

Synonyms

  1. blackness

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

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