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μέλισσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλισσα μελίσσης

Structure: μελισς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: me/li

Sense

  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

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.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ Ἀμορραῖοσ ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἐκείνῳ εἰσ συνάντησιν ὑμῖν καὶ κατεδίωξαν ὑμᾶσ, ὡσεὶ ποιήσαισαν αἱ μέλισσαι, καὶ ἐτίτρωσκον ὑμᾶσ ἀπὸ Σηεὶρ ἕωσ Ἑρμᾶ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 1:44)
  • 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)
  • ἐκύκλωσάν με ὡσεὶ μέλισσαι κηρίον καὶ ἐξεκαύθησαν ὡσ πῦρ ἐν ἀκάνθαισ, καὶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου ἠμυνάμην αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 117:12)
  • α ἢ πορεύθητι πρὸσ τὴν μέλισσαν καὶ μάθε ὡσ ἐργάτισ ἐστὶ τήν τε ἐργασίαν ὡσ σεμνὴν ποιεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 6:9)
  • μικρὰ ἐν πετεινοῖσ μέλισσα, καὶ ἀρχὴ γλυκασμάτων ὁ καρπὸσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 11:3)
  • πῶσ ἂν ὡσ ξουθόπτεροσ μέλισσα συνενέγκαιμ’ ἂν ἐκ πάντων γόουσ, ἐσ ἓν δ’ ἐνεγκοῦσ’ ἀθρόον ἀποδοίην δάκρυ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:24)
  • "̓ γέλωτοσ οὖν ἐπιρραγέντοσ παρῆν ἡ θεατροτορύνη Μέλισσα καὶ ἡ κυνάμυια Νίκιον αὗται δ’ ἦσαν τῶν οὐκ ἀσήμων ἑταιρίδων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4522)
  • Ἀτθὶσ δ’ οἱᾶ μέλισσα πολυπρήωνα Κολώνην λείπουσ1’ ἐν τραγικαῖσ ᾖδε χοροστασίαισ Βάκχον καὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα Θεωρίδοσ Ἠριγόνησ τε ἅσ ποτε γηραιῷ Ζεὺσ ἔπορεν Σοφοκλεῖ . (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 7:3)
  • ἐκ τούτου παρῆλθε μὲν ἡ Μέλισσα καὶ κατεκλίθη παρὰ τὸν Περίανδρον, ἡ δ’ Εὔμητισ ἐκάθισε παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 4 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a bee

  2. honey

  3. poet

  4. the priestess at Delphi

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