μέλαν

Ancient Greek

Neuter substantive of μέλᾱς (mélās, “black”).

μέλᾰν • (mélan) n (genitive μέλᾰνος); second declension

Third declension of τὸ μέλᾰν; τοῦ μέλᾰνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μέλᾰν tò mélan	τὼ μέλᾰνε tṑ mélane	τᾰ̀ μέλᾰνᾰ tà mélana
Genitive	τοῦ μέλᾰνος toû mélanos	τοῖν μελᾰ́νοιν toîn melánoin	τῶν μελᾰ́νων tôn melánōn
Dative	τῷ μέλᾰνῐ tôi mélani	τοῖν μελᾰ́νοιν toîn melánoin	τοῖς μέλᾰσῐ / μέλᾰσῐν toîs mélasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ μέλᾰν tò mélan	τὼ μέλᾰνε tṑ mélane	τᾰ̀ μέλᾰνᾰ tà mélana
Vocative	μέλᾰν mélan	μέλᾰνε mélane	μέλᾰνᾰ mélana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

μέλᾰν • (mélan)

μέλαν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μέλαν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
G3188 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- black idem, page 80.

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