μέλδομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Verb

μέλδομαι • (méldomai)

  1. to melt
    • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 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
      As a cauldron boils being placed on a great fire, melting the fat of a well-fed pig

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