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μελία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελία

Structure: μελι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the ash
  2. an ashen spear

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

  • καρύαι μελίαι τε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 38 1:7)
  • πολλὴ μὲν γὰρ ἐλάτη πέφυκεν οὐρανομήκησ ἐν αὐτῇ, πολλὴ δὲ αἴγειροσ, πολλὴ δὲ πίειρα πεύκη ὀξύη τε καὶ πίτυσ καὶ φηγὸσ ἀμφιλαφὴσ καὶ μελίαι ταῖσ διαρρεούσαισ λιβάσι πιαινόμεναι, καὶ πᾶσα ἄλλη βαθεῖα συνυφαινομένη τοῖσ κλάδοισ ὕλη σκιερὸν ἀποτελοῦσα δἰ ὅλησ ἡμέρασ τὸ ὄροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 15 2:2)
  • γηραλέον προτέρησ παῦσον ἀγριοσύνησ οὕτω τοι, μελία ταναά, ποτὶ κίονα μακρὸν ἧσο, Πανομφαίῳ Ζηνὶ μένουσ1’ ἱερά· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 51 2:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Κολοφωνίων ἄλσοσ τε τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ, δένδρα μελίαι, καὶ οὐ πόρρω τοῦ ἄλσουσ Ἄλησ ποταμὸσ ψυχρότατοσ τῶν ἐν Ιὠνίᾳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 16:3)

Synonyms

  1. the ash

  2. an ashen spear

Related

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

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