μέλανα (melana)

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

Found 124 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.110: … ν Ὀλυμπιάδι τεσσαρακοστῇ ἕκτῇ ἐκάθηρεν αὐτῶν τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἔπαυσε τὸν λοιμὸν τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον. λαβὼν πρόβατα μέλανά τε καὶ λευκὰ ἤγαγε πρὸς τὸν Ἄρειον πάγον· κἀκεῖθεν εἴασεν ἰέναι οἷ βούλοιντο, προστάξας τοῖς ἀκολούθοις ἔνθα …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 1.11.5: ἐκεῖθεν δὲ διὰ τῆς Παιτικῆς ἐπὶ τὸν Μέλανα ποταμὸν ἔρχεται. διαβὰς δὲ καὶ τὸν Μέλανα ἐς Σηστόν ἀφικνεῖται ἐν εἴκοσι ταῖς πάσαις ἡμέραις ἀπὸ τῆς οἴκοθεν …

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.