μέλισσα

See also: Μέλισσα

Ancient Greek

Potentially from *μελίλιχια (*melílikhia), from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”) + *leyǵʰ- (“lick”). Compare Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih).

Alternatively from Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa, equivalent to μέλι(τ)- (méli(t)-) +‎ -ια (-ia).

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

First declension of ἡ μέλισσᾰ; τῆς μελίσσης (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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

μέλισσα • (mélissa) f (plural μέλισσες)

declension of μέλισσα