μέλας
First/Third declension Adjective;
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μέλας
μέλαινα
μέλαν
Structure:
μελαν
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Etym.: cf. ta/las, the only word like it in form
Sense
- dark, black
- (figuratively) evil, black, dark
- (figuratively) dark, obscure
- (of the voice) indistinct
- (medicine) causing black secretions
Declension
First/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.
- ἐὰν δὲ ἐνώπιον μείνῃ ἐπὶ χώρασ τὸ θραῦσμα, καὶ θρὶξ μέλαινα ἀνατείλῃ ἐν αὐτῷ, ὑγίακε τὸ θραῦσμα. καθαρόσ ἐστι, καὶ καθαριεῖ αὐτὸν ὁ ἱερεύσ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 13:37)
- κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ χρυσίον καιφάζ, βόστρυχοι αὐτοῦ ἐλάται, μέλανεσ ὡσ κόραξ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 5:11)
- ἐν τῷ ἅρματι τῷ πρώτῳ ἵπποι πυρροί, καὶ ἐν τῷ ἅρματι τῷ δευτέρῳ ἵπποι μέλανεσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 6:2)
- ἐν ᾧ ἦσαν οἱ ἵπποι οἱ μέλανεσ, ἐξεπορεύοντο ἐπὶ γῆν βορρᾶ, καὶ οἱ λευκοὶ ἐξεπορεύοντο κατόπισθεν αὐτῶν, καὶ οἱ ποικίλοι ἐξεπορεύοντο ἐπὶ γῆν νότου, (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 6:6)
- ὅτε τὸν Ὀρφέα διεσπάσαντο αἱ Θρᾷτται, φασὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ σὺν τῇ λύρᾳ εἰσ τὸν Ἕβρον ἐμπεσοῦσαν ἐκβληθῆναι εἰσ τὸν μέλανα κόλπον, καὶ ἐπιπλεῖν γε τὴν κεφαλὴν τῇ λύρᾳ, τὴν μὲν ᾄδουσαν θρῆνόν τινα ἐπὶ τῷ Ὀρφεῖ, ὡσ λόγοσ,^ τὴν λύραν δὲ αὐτὴν ὑπηχεῖν τῶν ἀνέμων ἐμπιπτόντων ταῖσ χορδαῖσ, καὶ οὕτω μετ’ ᾠδῆσ προσενεχθῆναι τῇ Λέσβῳ, κἀκείνουσ ἀνελομένουσ τὴν μὲν κεφαλὴν καταθάψαι ἵναπερ νῦν τὸ Βακχεῖον αὐτοῖσ ἐστι, τὴν λύραν δὲ ἀναθεῖναι εἰσ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ τὸ ἱερόν, καὶ ἐπὶ πολύ γε σώζεσθαι αὐτήν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 11:2)
- ἆρ’ οὐχ ὁ μὲν τὸ σῶμα πρῶτον πολὺσ καὶ τὸ χρῶμα ἡδύσ, οὐ μέλασ δὲ οὐδὲ λευκὸσ ‐ τὸ μὲν γὰρ γυναικί, τὸ δὲ δούλῳ προσέοικεν ‐ ἔπειτα θυμοειδήσ, δεινὸν βλέπων ὁποῖον ἡμεῖσ, μέγα καὶ ὕφαιμον; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 41:2)
- μέλασ δ’ οὐκ ἔσκε σίδηροσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 19:6)
- θάνατοσ δὲ καὶ ἐκπάγλουσ περ ἐόντασ εἷλε μέλασ, λαμπρὸν δ’ ἔλιπον φάοσ ἠελίοιο. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 19:8)
- μέλασ γὰρ ὄσσε κατεκάλυψε θάνατοσ ὅσιοσ ἀνοσίαισ σφαγαῖσιν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, strophe 115)
- οἱο͂ν αὖ μέλασ τισ ὑμῖν θυμάλωψ ἐπέζεσεν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees13)
Synonyms
-
dark
-
evil
-
dark
- σκοτεινός (dark, obscure)
- σκοταῖος (dark, obscure)
- σκότιος (dark, obscure)
- ψεφηνός (dark, obscure)
- ἐπίσκιος (shaded, dark, obscure)
- ἄφαντος (obscure)
- ἀλαμπής (obscure)
- ἐρεμνός (black, swart, dark)
- σκοτόεις (dark)
- σκότιος (dark)
- σκότιος (dark)
- σκοτεινός (dark, the darkness)
- σκοταῖος (in the dark)
- μαυρός (dark)
- ἀμαυρός (dark)
- σκοτώδης (dark)
- ἀτέκμαρτος (not to be guessed, obscure, baffling)
-
indistinct