μέλισσα

• μέλιττᾰ (mélitta) – Attic

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

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

• Μέλισσᾰ (Mélissa)

• Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)

• 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.

From Ancient Greek μέλισσα (mélissa).

μέλισσα • (mélissa) f (plural μέλισσες)

1. bee

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

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