μελλητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέλλω (méllō) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mel.lɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /mel.liˈtis/ → /me.liˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mel.lɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mel.le̝ˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mel.liˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mel.liˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.liˈtis/

Noun

μελλητής • (mellētḗs) m (genitive μελλητοῦ); first declension

1. one who delays, dawdler, procrastinator

Declension

First declension of ὁ μελλητής; τοῦ μελλητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μελλητής ho mellētḗs	τὼ μελλητᾱ́ tṑ mellētā́	οἱ μελληταί hoi mellētaí
Genitive	τοῦ μελλητοῦ toû mellētoû	τοῖν μελληταῖν toîn mellētaîn	τῶν μελλητῶν tôn mellētôn
Dative	τῷ μελλητῇ tôi mellētêi	τοῖν μελληταῖν toîn mellētaîn	τοῖς μελληταῖς toîs mellētaîs
Accusative	τὸν μελλητήν tòn mellētḗn	τὼ μελλητᾱ́ tṑ mellētā́	τοὺς μελλητᾱ́ς toùs mellētā́s
Vocative	μελλητᾰ́ mellētá	μελλητᾱ́ mellētā́	μελληταί mellētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70:

  καὶ μὴν καὶ ἄοκνοι πρὸς ὑμᾶς μελλητὰς καὶ ἀποδημηταὶ πρὸς ἐνδημοτάτους· οἴονται γὰρ οἱ μὲν τῇ ἀπουσίᾳ ἄν τι κτᾶσθαι, ὑμεῖς δὲ τῷ ἐπελθεῖν καὶ τὰ ἑτοῖμα ἂν βλάψαι.

  kaì mḕn kaì áoknoi pròs humâs mellētàs kaì apodēmētaì pròs endēmotátous; oíontai gàr hoi mèn têi apousíāi án ti ktâsthai, humeîs dè tôi epeltheîn kaì tà hetoîma àn blápsai.

Further reading

• μελλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μελλητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μελλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dallier idem, page 193.
  • dawdler idem, page 197.
  • laggard idem, page 473.
  • lingerer idem, page 493.
  • loiterer idem, page 497.
  • procrastinator idem, page 644.