μέλος
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from a Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“limb”); compare Breton mell (“joint”), Cornish mal (“id”), Welsh cymmal (“id”), which are from Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”). For a semantic parallel (albeit from a different root), note Irish alt (“joint; paragraph”).[1] See also μέρος (méros, “part, share”), of similar meaning and superficial pronunciation but different origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.los/
Noun
[edit]μέλος • (mélos) n (genitive μέλους or μέλεος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | τὸ μέλος tò mélos |
τὼ μέλει tṑ mélei |
τᾰ̀ μέλη tà mélē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μέλους toû mélous |
τοῖν μελοῖν toîn meloîn |
τῶν μελῶν tôn melôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μέλει tôi mélei |
τοῖν μελοῖν toîn meloîn |
τοῖς μέλεσῐ / μέλεσῐν toîs mélesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μέλος tò mélos |
τὼ μέλει tṑ mélei |
τᾰ̀ μέλη tà mélē | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέλος mélos |
μέλει mélei |
μέλη mélē | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | μέλος mélos |
μέλει / μέλεε mélei / mélee |
μέλεᾰ mélea | ||||||||||
Genitive | μέλεος / μέλευς méleos / méleus |
μελέοιν meléoin |
μελέων meléōn | ||||||||||
Dative | μέλει / μέλεῐ̈ mélei / méleï |
μελέοιν meléoin |
μέλεσῐ / μέλεσῐν mélesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | μέλος mélos |
μέλει / μέλεε mélei / mélee |
μέλεᾰ mélea | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέλος mélos |
μέλει / μέλεε mélei / mélee |
μέλεᾰ mélea | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | τὸ μέλος tò mélos |
τὼ μέλει / μέλεε tṑ mélei / mélee |
τᾰ̀ μέλεᾰ tà mélea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μέλεος / μέλευς toû méleos / méleus |
τοῖν μελέοιν toîn meléoin |
τῶν μελέων tôn meléōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μέλει / μέλεῐ̈ tôi mélei / méleï |
τοῖν μελέοιν toîn meléoin |
τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν μέλεσῐ / μέλεσῐν toîsi(n) mélesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μέλος tò mélos |
τὼ μέλει / μέλεε tṑ mélei / mélee |
τᾰ̀ μέλεᾰ tà mélea | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέλος mélos |
μέλει / μέλεε mélei / mélee |
μέλεᾰ mélea | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Greek: μέλος (mélos)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μέλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 927-8
Further reading
[edit]- “μέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μέλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3196 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]μέλος • (mélos) n (plural μέλη)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | μέλος (mélos) | μέλη (méli) |
genitive | μέλους (mélous) | μελών (melón) |
accusative | μέλος (mélos) | μέλη (méli) |
vocative | μέλος (mélos) | μέλη (méli) |
Related terms
[edit]- αρτιμελής (artimelís, “able-bodied”, adjective)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek neuter nouns
- el:Anatomy
- Greek nouns declining like 'δάσος'
- el:People