Μέλας

Where it lives

• Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
• Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
• Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Μέλανος · Melanos Herodotus, Histories 6.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6385)
• Μέλας · Melas Herodotus, Histories 7.198.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8220)
• Μέλανος · Melanos Herodotus, Histories 7.199.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8221)
• Μέλανα · Melana Herodotus, Histories 7.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7442)
• Μέλανα · Melana Herodotus, Histories 7.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7442)
• Μέλας · Melas Iliad 14.117

6 of 7 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Μέλας (scan pp. 974-975; entry #3989).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Μέλας (scan pp. 697-698; entry #5171). Root candidates: *mêlna-.
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Μέλας (scan p. 1170; entry #3794).

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