Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐκ δὲ Μελαινῶν ἢ Μελανιῶν τῆσ Κιλικίασ τῶν πρὸσ Κελένδεριν ἐπὶ μὲν τὰ μεθόρια τῆσ Κιλικίασ καὶ Συρίασ χιλίουσ καὶ ἐνακοσίουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 66:3)
  • οὕτωσ ἦν νεανίσκοσ Μελανίων τισ, ὃσ φεύγων γάμον ἀφίκετ’ ἐσ ἐρημίαν, κἀν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν ᾤκει· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • Ἀμφιδάμαντοσ δὲ Μελανίων καὶ θυγάτηρ Ἀντιμάχη, ἣν Εὐρυσθεὺσ ἔγημεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 9 2:2)
  • ἤδη δὲ πολλῶν ἀπολομένων Μελανίων αὐτῆσ ἐρασθεὶσ ἧκεν ἐπὶ τὸν δρόμον, χρύσεα μῆλα κομίζων παρ’ Ἀφροδίτησ, καὶ διωκόμενοσ ταῦτα ἔρριπτεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 9 2:10)
  • ἔγημεν οὖν αὐτὴν Μελανίων. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 9 2:12)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐσ ἅμιλλαν δρόμου καθεστηκότεσ Μελανίων ἐστὶ καὶ Νεοθεὺσ καὶ Φαλαρεύσ, τέταρτοσ δὲ Ἀργεῖοσ καὶ Ἴφικλοσ πέμπτοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 15:5)

Synonyms

  1. blackness

Related

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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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