μέλαν (melan)

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

Found 179 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.257: κῦμα μέλαν κριῷ ἅμʼ ἐπικλύσαι· ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐδὴν

Aeschylus, Eumenides 183: ἀνῇς ὑπʼ ἄλγους μέλανʼ ἀπʼ ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν,

Marcus Aurelius, Ad Se Ipsum 4.28.1: Μέλαν ἦθος, θῆλυ ἦθος, περισκελὲς ἦθος, θηριῶδες, βοσκηματῶδες, παιδαριῶδες, βλακικόν, κίβδηλον, βωμολόχον, καπηλικόν, τυραννικόν.

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.