See also: Μέλισσα

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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μέλισσᾰ (mélissaf (genitive μελίσσης); first declension

  1. bee
  2. (poetic) honey
  3. poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)
  4. priestess at Delphi
  5. (Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)
  • Turkish: melis (honey bee), meliz (honey bee)dialectal
  • Translingual: Melissa

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Greek

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek μέλισσα (mélissa).

Compare Mariupol Greek мелы́ш (mjelýš), милиш (miliš).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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μέλισσα (mélissaf (plural μέλισσες)

  1. bee

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