μελλ-ητής · mell-ētēs — LSJ
one who delays, procrastinates
one who delays or procrastinates, Th. 1.70, Arist. EN 1124b24, Procop. Goth. 3.1.
The corpus record
μελλ-ητής
melletes · ὁ
one who delays
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Where it lives
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μελλητὴν · mellētēn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1124b (DIORISIS sentence 1327)
- μελλητὰς · mellētas Thucydides, History 1.70.4 (DIORISIS sentence 422)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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