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μελίτεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελίτεια

Structure: μελιτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: me/li

Sense

  1. baulm

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

  • καὶ μὰν ἐσ Στομάλιμνον ἐλαύνεται ἔσ τε τὰ Φύσκω, καὶ ποτὶ τὸν Νήαιθον, ὅπᾳ καλὰ πάντα φύοντι, αἰγίπυροσ καὶ κνύζα καὶ εὐώδησ μελίτεια. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)
  • ταῖσι δ’ ἐμαῖσ ὀίεσσι πάρεστι μὲν ἁ μελίτεια φέρβεσθαι, πολλὸσ δὲ καὶ ὡσ ῥόδα κίσθοσ ἐπανθεῖ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 112)
  • ἀγγελίησ ἤκουσεν ἀνωΐστου Μελίτεια, υἱέα σὺν φόρτῳ κύματι κρυπτόμενον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2281)
  • αἱ Λυκομήδευσ παῖδεσ, Ἀθηνὼ καὶ Μελίτεια καὶ Φιντὼ Γληνὶσ θ’, αἱ φιλοεργόταται, ἔργων ἐκ δεκάτασ ποτιθύμια, τόν τε πρόσεργον ἄτρακτον, καὶ τὰν ἄτρια κριναμέναν κερκίδα, τὰν ἱστῶν μολπάτιδα, καὶ τὰ τροχαῖα πανία, κερταστὰσ τούσδε ποτιρρογέασ, καὶ σπάθασ εὐβριθεῖσ πολυάργυρα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2881)

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

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