μέλισσα
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- bee
- (poetic) honey
- poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)
- priestess at Delphi
- (Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (honey) inherited from Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa affix from Ancient Greek μέλι (honey, anything sweet).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μέλι
Gloss
honey, anything sweet
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
蜜
Emoji
🍯
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Melissa English
- melissa English
- omphacomel English
- Melidectes Latin
- meliphaga Latin
- melissa Latin
- tractomelitus Latin
- Melisse German
- mélisse French
- θαλασσόμελι Ancient Greek
- μέλι Ancient Greek
- μελίκρατον Ancient Greek
- μελίπτορθος Ancient Greek
- μελίτινος Ancient Greek
- μελίφρων Ancient Greek
- μελιηδής Ancient Greek
- μελισσόφυλλον Ancient Greek
- φύλλον Ancient Greek
- *mélit Proto-Indo-European
- melisse Norwegian Bokmål
- sitronmelisse Norwegian Bokmål
- marmelo Portuguese
- *mili Proto-Germanic
- melisse Norwegian Nynorsk
- sitronmelisse Norwegian Nynorsk
- μέλι Greek (modern)
- Melissa Translingual
- bletar Albanian
- bletë Albanian
- *m(e)lítā Proto-Albanian
- *meliťťa Proto-Hellenic