Μελάνιππος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέλᾱς (mélās, “dark; black”) +‎ ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Μελᾰ́νῐππος • (Melánippos) m (genitive Μελᾰνῐ́ππου); second declension

  1. a male given name: Melanippus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Μελᾰ́νῐππος; τοῦ Μελᾰνῐ́ππου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Μελᾰ́νῐππος
ho Melánippos
Genitive τοῦ Μελᾰνῐ́ππου
toû Melaníppou
Dative τῷ Μελᾰνῐ́ππῳ
tôi Melaníppōi
Accusative τὸν Μελᾰ́νῐππον
tòn Melánippon
Vocative Μελᾰ́νῐππε
Melánippe
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Μελάνιππος (Melánippos)
  • Latin: Melanippus

Further reading
  • “Μελάνιππος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Μελάνιππος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
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