Ancient Greek

Noun

μελῳδία • ‎(melōidía) f ‎(genitive μελῳδίας); first declension

1. song, singing; chant; music

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: μελωδία ‎(melodía)
• Latin: melodia
  • French: mélodie
• Russian: мелодия f ‎(melodija)

References

• μελῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μελῳδία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μελῳδία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chant idem, page 124.
  • lay idem, page 480.
  • melody idem, page 524.
  • minstrelsy idem, page 531.
  • music idem, page 547.
  • song idem, page 793.