μηλοπέπων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) +‎ πέπων (pépōn, “cooked by the sun, ripe; mellow”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.lo.pé.pɔːn/ → /mi.loˈpe.pon/ → /mi.loˈpe.pon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.lo.pé.pɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝.loˈpe.pon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mi.loˈpe.pon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mi.loˈpe.pon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.loˈpe.pon/

Noun

μηλοπέπων • (mēlopépōn) m (genitive μηλοπέπονος); third declension

1. (Koine) melon, Cucumis melo
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.566
   • 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 10.20.4
   • Mich., in PN 81.8

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ μηλοπέπων; τοῦ μηλοπέπονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηλοπέπων ho mēlopépōn	οἱ μηλοπέπονες hoi mēlopépones
Genitive	τοῦ μηλοπέπονος toû mēlopéponos	τῶν μηλοπεπόνων tôn mēlopepónōn
Dative	τῷ μηλοπέπονῐ tôi mēlopéponi	τοῖς μηλοπέποσῐ / μηλοπέποσῐν toîs mēlopéposi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μηλοπέπονᾰ tòn mēlopépona	τοὺς μηλοπέπονᾰς toùs mēlopéponas
Vocative	μηλοπέπον mēlopépon	μηλοπέπονες mēlopépones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Aramaic: מלפפון, מילפפון

  Classical Syriac: ܡܠܦܘܢܐ

• → Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן (məlap̱əp̱ṓn)
• →⇒ Old Armenian: մեղրապոպ (mełrapop)
• → Old Georgian: მელსაპეპონი (melsaṗeṗoni), მელსაპეპო (melsaṗeṗo), მელასპეპო (melasṗeṗo)
• → Latin: mēlopepō
  • ⇒ Late Latin: mēlō
    • Asturian: melón
    • Catalan: meló
    • Old French: melon
      • → Middle Dutch: melone
        • Afrikaans: meloen
        • Dutch: meloen
      • → Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
        • → English: melon, mellon
          • → Japanese: メロン
          • → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
          • → Welsh: melon
      • French: melon
      • Norman: m'lon
    • Galician: melón
    • Italian: melone, mellone (dialectal)
      • → German: Melone
      • → Hunsrik: Mëlon
    • Occitan: melon
    • Piedmontese: mëlon, mlon
    • Portuguese: melão
    • Romagnol: mlon, mlôn, mlōn
    • Sicilian: miluni
    • Spanish: melón
  • → Irish: mealbhacán

References

• “μηλοπέπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press