μέλισσα
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See also: Μέλισσα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Potentially haplologized from *μελιλίχια (*melilíkhia), from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”) + *leyǵʰ- (“lick”). Compare Albanian bletë and Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih).
Alternatively from Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa, equivalent to μέλιτ- (mélit-) + -ια (-ia).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.lis.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.lis.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.lis.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.lis.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.li.sa/
Noun
μέλισσᾰ • (mélissa) f (genitive μελίσσης); first declension
- bee
- (poetic) honey
- poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)
- priestess at Delphi
- (Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μέλισσᾰ hē mélissa |
τὼ μελίσσᾱ tṑ melíssā |
αἱ μέλισσαι hai mélissai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μελίσσης tês melíssēs |
τοῖν μελίσσαιν toîn melíssain |
τῶν μελισσῶν tôn melissôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μελίσσῃ têi melíssēi |
τοῖν μελίσσαιν toîn melíssain |
ταῖς μελίσσαις taîs melíssais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μέλισσᾰν tḕn mélissan |
τὼ μελίσσᾱ tṑ melíssā |
τᾱ̀ς μελίσσᾱς tā̀s melíssās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέλισσᾰ mélissa |
μελίσσᾱ melíssā |
μέλισσαι mélissai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μέλισσᾰ (Mélissa)
- μελισσαῖος (melissaîos)
- μελίσσειος (melísseios)
- μελισσεύς (melisseús)
- μελισσήεις (melissḗeis)
- μελισσία (melissía)
- μελίσσιος (melíssios)
- μελισσοβότανον (melissobótanon)
- μελισσόβοτος (melissóbotos)
- μελισσοκόμος (melissokómos)
- μελισσοκράς (melissokrás)
- μελισσονόμος (melissonómos)
- μελισσόομαι (melissóomai)
- μελισσοπόλος (melissopólos)
- μελισσοπόνος (melissopónos)
- μελισσόρυτος (melissórutos)
- μελισσοσόος (melissosóos)
- μελισσότευκτος (melissóteuktos)
- μελισσοτρόφος (melissotróphos)
- μελισσουργός (melissourgós)
- μελισσοφάγος (melissophágos)
- μελισσοφάτνη (melissophátnē)
- μελισσόφονος (melissóphonos)
- μελισσόφυλλον (melissóphullon)
- μελισσόφυτον (melissóphuton)
- μελισσών (melissṓn)
Descendants
- Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)
- Turkish: melis (“honey bee”), meliz (“honey bee”) — dialectal
- → Translingual: Melissa
References
- “μέλισσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέλισσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέλισσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέλισσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέλισσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μέλισσα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλισσα (mélissa).
Compare Mariupol Greek мелы́ш (mjelýš), милиш (miliš).
Pronunciation
Noun
μέλισσα • (mélissa) f (plural μέλισσες)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μέλισσα (mélissa) | μέλισσες (mélisses) |
| genitive | μέλισσας (mélissas) | μελισσών (melissón) |
| accusative | μέλισσα (mélissa) | μέλισσες (mélisses) |
| vocative | μέλισσα (mélissa) | μέλισσες (mélisses) |
Related terms
See also
- κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “honeycomb”)
- κυψέλη f (kypséli, “hive”)
- μπούμπουρας m (boúmpouras, “bumblebee”)
Further reading
- μέλισσα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
μέλισσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
