μίλτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /míl.tos/ → /ˈmil.tos/ → /ˈmil.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /míl.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.tos/

Noun

μίλτος • (míltos) f (genitive μίλτου); second declension

1. ruddle, red ochre
2. red lead
3. rust in plants
4. a taboo word for blood

Declension

Second declension of ἡ μῐ́λτος; τῆς μῐ́λτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́λτος hē mĭ́ltos	τὼ μῐ́λτω tṑ mĭ́ltō	αἱ μῐ́λτοι hai mĭ́ltoi
Genitive	τῆς μῐ́λτου tês mĭ́ltou	τοῖν μῐ́λτοιν toîn mĭ́ltoin	τῶν μῐ́λτων tôn mĭ́ltōn
Dative	τῇ μῐ́λτῳ têi mĭ́ltōi	τοῖν μῐ́λτοιν toîn mĭ́ltoin	ταῖς μῐ́λτοις taîs mĭ́ltois
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́λτον tḕn mĭ́lton	τὼ μῐ́λτω tṑ mĭ́ltō	τᾱ̀ς μῐ́λτους tā̀s mĭ́ltous
Vocative	μῐ́λτε mĭ́lte	μῐ́λτω mĭ́ltō	μῐ́λτοι mĭ́ltoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μιλτάριον (miltárion)
• μιλτεῖον (milteîon)
• μίλτειος (mílteios)
• Μιλτιάδης (Miltiádēs)
• μίλτινος (míltinos)
• μιλτίτης (miltítēs)
• μιλτοπάρῃος (miltopárēios)
• μιλτόω (miltóō)
• μιλτώδης (miltṓdēs)
• σύμμιλτος (súmmiltos)

 

Further reading

• “μίλτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μίλτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN