Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾶλον ‎(mâlon) Doric, Aeolic

Noun

μῆλον • ‎(mêlon) n ‎(genitive μήλου); second declension

1. apple
2. any fruit from a tree
3. (figuratively, in the plural) a woman's breast
4. (in the plural) cheeks

Declension

Derived terms

• ᾰ̔μᾰμηλῐ́ς ‎(hamamēlís)

Descendants

• Greek: μήλο ‎(mílo)
• Latin: mālum, mēlum, mēlo

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Compare Old Irish mil ‎(“small animal”), Dutch maal ‎(“young cow”), Old Church Slavonic малъ ‎(malŭ), and Old English smæl (English small).

Alternative forms

• μεῖλον ‎(meîlon) Boeotian

Noun

μῆλον • ‎(mêlon) n ‎(genitive μήλου); second declension

1. sheep
2. goat
3. beast

Declension

References

• μῆλον (Α) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μῆλον (Β) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μῆλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῆλον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μῆλον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μῆλον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «μῆλον» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apple idem, page 35.
• 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