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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

  • πολὺ δὲ καὶ σήσαμον καὶ μελίνην καὶ κέγχρον καὶ πυροὺσ καὶ κριθὰσ φέρει. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 24:3)
  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ χειμῶνα ὑεί σφι ὁ θεὸσ ὥσπερ καὶ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι ἀνθρώποισι, τοῦ δὲ θέρεοσ σπείροντεσ μελίνην καὶ σήσαμον χρηίσκονται τῷ ὕδατι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 117 5:2)
  • οὐδὲ μελίνην ἀντὶ πυρῶν, οὐδ’ ἀντ’ οἴνου τρύγα καὶ ταύτην σαπρὰν, οἶμαι δὲ οὐδὲ ψίαθον ἀντὶ ξυστίδοσ, οὐδ’ αὖ βύρσησ ὄζειν, μύρων ἐξόν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:5)

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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