The corpus record
Μέλας
melas
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Distribution
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Senses
This appears to be a proper name — a person, a place, a river — attested in the corpus but outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul; no lexicon entry is recorded.
Attestations
- Μέλας · Melas Iliad 14.117
- Μέλαν · Melan Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.28.1 (DIORISIS sentence 427)
- Μέλανος · Melanos Herodotus, Histories 6.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6385)
- Μέλανα · Melana Herodotus, Histories 7.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7442)
- Μέλανα · Melana Herodotus, Histories 7.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7442)
- Μέλας · Melas Herodotus, Histories 7.198.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8220)
6 of 7 attestations shown. Ask for more.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan pp. 974-975; entry #3989 Review: Under source audit
- scan pp. 697-698; entry #5171
Review: Under source audit
OCR root-candidate values are withheld pending source verification, rights review, and scholarly review. No root, reconstruction, cognate, or historical relationship is asserted here.
- scan p. 1170; entry #3794 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
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