Ancient Greek

Noun

μέλος • ‎(mélos) n ‎(genitive μέλεος or μέλους); third declension

1. part of a body, limb, member, part
2. part of a group, member
3. song, strain
4. tune
5. melody

Inflection

Derived terms

• μελῳδός ‎(melōidós)
  • μελῳδία ‎(melōidía)

References

• μέλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μέλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μέλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «μέλος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μέλος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3196”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accompaniment idem, page 6.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • carol idem, page 114.
  • chant idem, page 124.
  • lay idem, page 480.
  • lilt idem, page 492.
  • lyric poetry idem, page 506.
  • melody idem, page 524.
  • music idem, page 547.
  • ode idem, page 569.
  • song idem, page 793.
  • strain idem, page 822.
  • tune idem, page 900.
• 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

Greek

Noun

μέλος • ‎(mélos) n ‎(plural μέλη)

1. member (of organisation, group, etc)
2. (anatomy) limb, body member

Declension