μέλδομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *méldomai, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (to melt, smelt).

Pronunciation

 

Verb

μέλδομαι • (méldomai)

  1. to melt
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Illiad 21.362-363:
      ὡς δὲ λέβης ζεῖ ἔνδον ἐπειγόμενος πυρὶ πολλῷ, κνίσην μελδόμενος ἁπαλοτρεφέος σιάλοιο
      hōs dè lébēs zeî éndon epeigómenos purì pollōî, knísēn meldómenos hapalotrephéos siáloio
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

  • μέλδω (méldō)

References

  • μέλδομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • μέλδομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μέλδομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 924