μέλανι (melani)

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

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 17.4: … ερον ἱστίον λευκὸν τῷ κυβερνήτῃ, κελεύσας ὑποστρέφοντα σωζομένου τοῦ Θησέως ἐπάρασθαι τὸ λευκόν, εἰ δὲ μή, τῷ μέλανι πλεῖν καὶ ἀποσημαίνειν τὸ πάθος.

Strabo, Geography 2.5.21: … ὶ Καλαυρία καὶ αἱ περὶ Αἴγιναν καὶ Σαλαμῖνα καὶ τῶν Κυκλάδων τινές. τὸ δὲ συνεχὲς τὸ Αἰγαῖόν ἐστιν ἤδη σὺν τῷ Μέλανι κόλπῳ καὶ τῷ Ἑλλησπόντῳ, καὶ τὸ Ἰκάριον καὶ Καρπάθιον μέχρι τῆς Ῥόδου καὶ Κρήτης καὶ τῶν πρώτων μερῶν τῆς Ἀσί …

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.