Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mélis̚sa/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mélis̚sa/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mélisa/

Proper noun

Μέλισσα • ‎(Mélissa) f ‎(genitive Μελίσσης); first declension

1. Melissa

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Μέλισσα ‎(Mélissa)
• Latin: Melissa

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μέλιττα ‎(mélitta) (Attic)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /mélis̚sa/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mélis̚sa/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mélisa/

Noun

μέλισσα • ‎(mélissa) f ‎(genitive μελίσσης); first declension

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

Derived terms

• Μέλισσα ‎(Mélissa)

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: μέλισσα ‎(mélissa)

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.
  • bee idem, page 69.
  • honey idem, page 404.
  • Melissa idem, page 1017.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέλισσα ‎(mélissa).

Noun

μέλισσα • ‎(mélissa) f ‎(plural μέλισσες)

1. bee

Declension

Related terms

• μέλι n ‎(méli, “honey”)
• μελίσσι n ‎(melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)

See also

• κηρήθρα f ‎(kiríthra, “honeycomb”)
• κυψέλη f ‎(kypséli, “hive”)
• μπούμπουρας m ‎(boúmpouras, “bumblebee”)