μέλαιναν (melainan)

μέλαιναν is an Ancient Greek form of μέλας, meaning “black, dark”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 109 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.349: Ῥήβαν ὠκυρόην ποταμὸν ἄκρην τε Μέλαιναν

Euripides, Heracles 46: μέλαιναν ὄρφνην εἰσέβαινε, παῖς ἐμός —

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 9.23.2: … ν γεγονέναι τῆς τοιαύτης συμφορᾶς πικρῶς καὶ ἀπαραιτήτως εἶχεν· τὴν δʼ ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ἐν ᾗ τὸ πάθος ἐγένετο, μέλαινάν τε καὶ ἀποφράδα τίθεται, καὶ οὐδενὸς ἂν ἔργου ἐν ταύτῃ χρηστοῦ ἄρξαιτο, τὴν τότε συμβᾶσαν αὐτῇ τύχην ὀττευομέ …

All forms of μέλας (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.