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

(New Latin) Malta (a country and archipelago in Southern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea)
(New Latin) Malta (The largest island of the Maltese archipelago of Malta)
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Declension

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Derived terms

Melitēnsis

Descendants

Venetian: Meleda
- → Italian: Meleda
  - → English: Meleda (obsolete)
→ Arabic: مَالِطَا‎ (māliṭā)
- Maltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مالطه‎ (malta)
  - Turkish: 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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