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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μελανία μελανίᾱ μελανίαι
Genitive μελανίᾱς μελανίαιν μελανιῶν
Dative μελανίᾱͅ μελανίαιν μελανίαις
Accusative μελανίᾱν μελανίᾱ μελανίᾱς
Vocative μελανίᾱ μελανίᾱ μελανίαι

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

  • τῇ λεπτομερείᾳ καὶ κουφότητι, τότε ἡ μὲν ῥῆξισ τὸν ψόφον ἡ δὲ διαστολὴ παρὰ τὴν μελανίαν τοῦ νέφουσ τὸν διαυγασμὸν ἀποτελεῖ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 1:1)
  • τὴν μελανίαν τοῦ νεφώδουσ χρώματι τὴν ἀστραπήν, τῷ πλήθει καὶ μεγέθει τοῦ φωτὸσ τὸν κεραυνόν, τῷ δὲ πολυσωματωτέρῳ πυρὶ τὸν τυφῶνα, τῷ δὲ νεφελομιγεῖ τὸν πρηστῆρα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 5:1)
  • διόπερ εἰκόσ ἐστι καὶ τὸν Ποσειδῶ τιμᾶσθαι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ καίπερ μεσογαίοισ οὖσι, καὶ ἀπὸ Κελαινοῦ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ ἐκ Κελαινοῦσ, μιᾶσ τῶν Δαναί̈δων, γενομένου κεκλῆσθαι τὴν πόλιν ἐπώνυμον, ἢ διὰ τῶν λίθων τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκπυρώσεων μελανίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 29:5)

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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