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μέλασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλασμα μέλασματος

Structure: μελασματ (Stem)

Etym.: me/las

Sense

  1. anything black, black lead

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

  • "ᾗ μία φύσισ τῆσ ἔξω θαλάσσησ ἐστί, σύρρουν καὶ συνεχὲσ πέλαγοσ, ἡ δ’ ἔμφασισ οὐ μία τῶν ἐν τῇ σελήνῃ μελασμάτων, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἰσθμοὺσ ἔχουσα, τοῦ λαμπροῦ διαιροῦντοσ καὶ διορίζοντοσ τὸ, σκιερόν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 4 1:1)

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

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