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μελίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελίνη

Structure: μελιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. millet, millet-fields

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

  • τέλοσ δὲ καὶ μικροὶ ὀχετοί, ὥσπερ ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἐπὶ τὰσ μελίνασ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 15:5)
  • φέρει γὰρ ἡ γῆ καὶ κριθὰσ καὶ πυροὺσ καὶ ὄσπρια πάντα καὶ μελίνασ καὶ σήσαμα καὶ σῦκα ἀρκοῦντα καὶ ἀμπέλουσ πολλὰσ καὶ ἡδυοίνουσ καὶ τἆλλα πάντα πλὴν ἐλαῶν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 7:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Ἕλληνεσ προσέμενον μὲν Κλέανδρον καὶ τὰσ τριήρεισ καὶ τὰ πλοῖα ὡσ ἥξοντα, ἐξιόντεσ δ’ ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ σὺν τοῖσ ὑποζυγίοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδραπόδοισ ἐφέροντο ἀδεῶσ πυροὺσ καὶ κριθάσ, οἶνον, ὄσπρια, μελίνασ, σῦκα· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. millet

Similar forms

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

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