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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

  • Τρύφων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ ἐν τοῖσ φυτικοῖσ ἐπιγραφομένοισ ἄρτων ἐκτίθεται γένη, εἴ τι κἀγὼ μέμνημαι, ζυμίτην, ἄζυμον, σεμιδαλίτην, χονδρίτην, συγκομιστόν τοῦτον δ’ εἶναί φησι καὶ διαχωρητικώτερον τοῦ καθαροῦ τὸν ἐξ ὀλυρῶν, τὸν ἐκ τιφῶν, τὸν ἐκ μελινῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 742)
  • τούτων μὲν ἐπιθυμεῖν καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ταῦτα λαβεῖν καὶ πόνουσ καὶ χειμῶνασ καὶ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ κινδύνουσ ὑπομένειν, τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων λιμένων καὶ νεωρίων καὶ τριήρων καὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν ἀργυρείων καὶ τοσούτων προσόδων οὐκ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμᾶσ ἐάσειν ἔχειν, ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν μελινῶν καὶ τῶν ὀλυρῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ Θρᾳκίοισ σιροῖσ ἐν τῷ βαράθρῳ χειμάζειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 51:2)
  • τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων λιμένων καὶ νεωρίων καὶ τριήρων καὶ τόπου καὶ δόξησ, ὧν μήτ’ ἐκείνῳ μήτ’ ἄλλῳ γένοιτο μηδενὶ χειρωσαμένῳ τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἡμετέραν κυριεῦσαι, οὐκ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμᾶσ ἐάσειν ἔχειν, ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν μελινῶν καὶ τῶν ὀλυρῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ Θρᾳκίοισ σιροῖσ ἐν τῷ βαράθρῳ χειμάζειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 19:1)
  • οἳ νεωστὶμὲν τὰ ῥάκη περιῃρημένοι καὶ ποιμένεσ ἀκούοντεσ καὶ τοῖσ Θρᾳξὶ περὶ τῶν μελινῶν μαχόμενοι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐκράτησαν, εἰσ τὴν Ἀσίαν διέβησαν, ἄχρισ Ἰνδῶν ἦρξαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 34:1)

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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