Melita

Latin

Alternative forms
  • Melitē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μελίτη (Melítē), possibly ultimately from Phoenician or related to μέλι, μελίτος (méli, melítos, “honey”). More at Malta.

Proper noun

Melita f sg (genitive Melitae); first declension

  1. Malta
  2. Mljet

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Melita
Genitive Melitae
Dative Melitae
Accusative Melitam
Ablative Melitā
Vocative Melita
Locative Melitae

Derived terms
  • Melitēnsis

Descendants
  • Venetian: Meleda
  • → Arabic: مَالِطَا‎ (māliṭā)
    • Maltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: مالطه‎ (malta)
    • → South Levantine Arabic: مالطا‎ (mālṭa)
  • → Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ
    • Serbo-Croatian: Mljet
      • → English: Mljet
      • → Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)

References
  • “Melita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Melita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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