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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

  • γενομένῳ δὲ αὐτῷ περὶ πόλιν Μελίτειαν ἀφικνοῦντο πολλαχόθεν ἀγγελίαι πορθεῖσθαι τὰ κατόπιν αὖθισ οὐκ ἐλάττονι στρατιᾷ βασιλικῇ τῆσ πρότερον. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 20 1:2)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὸ συνεχὲσ ἐνεργῷ νυκτοπορίᾳ χρησάμενοσ ὑπὸ τὴν ἑωθινὴν ἧκε πρὸσ Μελίτειαν, καὶ προσθεὶσ τὰσ κλιμακίδασ τοῖσ τείχεσι κατεπείραζε τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 97 5:1)

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

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