Μελάμπους

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέλᾱς (mélās, “dark; black”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.lám.puːs/ → /meˈlam.pus/ → /meˈlam.bus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.lám.puːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈlam.pus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈlam.pus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈlam.pus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈlam.bus/

Proper noun

Μελᾰ́μπους • (Melámpous) m (genitive Μελᾰ́μποδος); third declension

1. Melampus

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Μελᾰ́μπους; τῆς Μελᾰ́μποδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μελᾰ́μπους hē Melámpous
Genitive	τῆς Μελᾰ́μποδος tês Melámpodos
Dative	τῇ Μελᾰ́μποδῐ têi Melámpodi
Accusative	τὴν Μελᾰ́μποδᾰ tḕn Melámpoda
Vocative	Μελᾰ́μπους Melámpous
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Catalan: Melamp
• French: Mélampous
• Greek: Μελάμπους (Melámpous)
• Italian: Melampo
• Latin: Melampūs
• Russian: Мелампод (Melampod)
• Translingual: Melampus

References

• “Μελάμπους”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016