μελίθροος
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
μελίθροον, contr. μελίθρους, ουν, sweet-voiced, κύκνος ib.5.124 (Bass.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 123] zsgzgn -θρους, ουν, süßtönend, κύκνος, Bass. 1 (V, 125).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
μελίθροος: стяж. μελίθρους 2 сладкогласный (κύκνος Anth.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μελίθροος: -ον, συνῃρ. -θρους, ὁ ἡδέως ἠχῶν, Ἀνθ. Π. 5. 125.
Greek Monolingual
μελίθροος, -ον και μελίθρους, -ουν (Α)
αυτός που μιλάει γλυκά, ο γλυκύφωνος.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μέλι + θρόος (< θρέομαι «κράζω, ξεφωνίζω»), πρβλ. ηδύθροος, οιωνόθροος].
