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
  • → 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