Ancient Greek

Noun

μέλῐ • ‎(méli) n ‎(genitive μέλῐτος); third declension

1. honey
2. anything sweet

Inflection

Derived terms

• μέλισσα ‎(mélissa)
• ὑδρόμελι ‎(hudrómeli)

Usage notes

μέλι is also sometimes used as the dative singular.

Descendants

• Greek: μέλι ‎(méli)
• Hawaiian: meli

References

• μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μέλι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μέλι» 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
• «μέλι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μέλι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3192”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • honey idem, page 404.
  • syrup idem, page 851.

Greek

Pronunciation

Homophones: μέλει ‎(mélei), μέλη ‎(méli), μέλλει ‎(méllei)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέλι ‎(méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.

Noun

μέλι • ‎(méli) n ‎(plural μέλια)

1. honey

Declension

Related terms

• μέλισσα f ‎(mélissa, “bee”)
• μελίσσι n ‎(melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)

Coordinate terms

• κυψέλη f ‎(kypséli, “beehive”)
• κηρήθρα f ‎(kiríthra, “honeycomb”)

External links

• μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el