μέλισσα
First declension Noun; Feminine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μέλισσα
μελίσσης
Structure:
μελισς
(Stem)
+
α
(Ending)
Sense
- a bee
- (poetic) honey
- poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)
- the priestess at Delphi
- (Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being
Declension
First declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- καὶ ὑπέστρεψε μεθ̓ ἡμέρασ λαβεῖν αὐτὴν καὶ ἐξέκλινεν ἰδεῖν τὸ πτῶμα τοῦ λέοντοσ, καὶ ἰδοὺ συναγωγὴ μελισσῶν ἐν τῷ στόματι τοῦ λέοντοσ καὶ μέλι. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 14:8)
- περιέσπασε δὲ καὶ μελισσῶν οὐκ ὀλίγασ· (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 8:4)
- οὐκ ὦφθαι δέ φησιν οὔτε μέλισσαν οὔτε κηφῆνα ὀχεύοντασ, ὅθεν οὐκ εἶναι διιδεῖν πότερα αὐτῶν ἄρρενα ἢ θήλεα, πόθεν δ’ ὅτι οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἥσσονεσ μελισσῶν αἰεὶ γὰρ αὗται τὴν ἰσότητα τοῦ βίου τηροῦσιν, οὐ μεταβαλλόμεναι, ἀλλ’ ἀγείρουσαι καὶ ἀδιδάκτωσ ποιοῦσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 2:4)
- οἱ δ’ ἄνθρωποι ἥσσονεσ μελισσῶν καὶ πλήρεισ οἰήσεωσ ὡσ ἐκεῖναι μέλιτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 3:1)
- ἔτι δ’ ὄρνεά τε σαρκοφάγα πολλὰ καθ’ ἡμέραν ἐπεφαίνετο τῷ στρατοπέδῳ, καί μελισσῶν ὤφθησαν ἑσμοὶ συνιστάμενοι περὶ τόπον τινὰ τοῦ χάρακοσ ἐντόσ, ὃν ἐξέκλεισαν οἱ μάντεισ ἀφοσιούμενοι τὴν δεισιδαιμονίαν ἀτρέμα καί τόν Κάσσιον αὑτὸν ὑποφέρουσαν ἐκ τῶν Ἐπικούρου λόγων, τοὺσ δὲ στρατιώτασ παντάπασι δεδουλωμένην. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 39 3:1)
Synonyms
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a bee
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honey
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poet
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the priestess at Delphi
