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μηλοπέπων

μηλοπέπων

Ancient Greek

Noun

μηλοπέπων • ‎(mēlopépōn) m ‎(genitive μηλοπέπονος); third declension

melon, Cucumis melo
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.566
- 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 10.20.4
- Mich., in PN 81.8

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ μηλοπέπων; τοῦ μηλοπέπονος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηλοπέπων	τὼ μηλοπέπονε	οἱ μηλοπέπονες
Genitive	τοῦ μηλοπέπονος	τοῖν μηλοπεπόνοιν	τῶν μηλοπεπόνων
Dative	τῷ μηλοπέπονῐ	τοῖν μηλοπεπόνοιν	τοῖς μηλοπέποσῐ
Accusative	τὸν μηλοπέπονᾰ	τὼ μηλοπέπονε	τοὺς μηλοπέπονᾰς
Vocative	μηλοπέπον	μηλοπέπονε	μηλοπέπονες
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן ‎(m'laf'fón)
→ Latin: mēlopepō
- Late Latin: mēlō
  - Old French: melon
    - → Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
      - English: melon
    - French: melon
    - Norman: m'lon
  - Italian: melone
  - Portuguese: melão
  - Spanish: melón

References

μηλοπέπων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press