See Μελίτη in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "Melitaîon",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"noun"
],
"word": "Μελῐταῖον"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "Meliteús",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "Μελῐτεύς"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "Melitḗïos",
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"adjective"
],
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}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "aii",
"2": "ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "mīleṭa"
},
"expansion": "→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ (mīleṭa)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ (mīleṭa)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "Mélitè",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: Mélitè",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: Mélitè"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Melite",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: Melite\nEnglish: Melite",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: Melite\nEnglish: Melite"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Melita"
},
"expansion": "Latin: Melita, Melitē, Malta\n→ Arabic: مَالِطَا (māliṭā)\nMaltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: مالطه (malta)\nTurkish: Malta\n→ South Levantine Arabic: مالطا (mālṭa)\nEnglish: Melita\n→ Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ\nSerbo-Croatian: Mljet\n→ English: Mljet\n→ Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)\nVenetian: Meleda\n→ Italian: Meleda\n→ English: Meleda (obsolete)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Latin: Melita, Melitē, Malta\n→ Arabic: مَالِطَا (māliṭā)\nMaltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: مالطه (malta)\nTurkish: Malta\n→ South Levantine Arabic: مالطا (mālṭa)\nEnglish: Melita\n→ Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ\nSerbo-Croatian: Mljet\n→ English: Mljet\n→ Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)\nVenetian: Meleda\n→ Italian: Meleda\n→ English: Meleda (obsolete)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μέλι",
"3": "-η",
"t1": "honey",
"t2": "-a: forming feminine place names"
},
"expansion": "μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -η (-ē, “-a: forming feminine place names”)",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "uncertain",
"name": "uncertain"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "phn",
"3": "𐤌𐤋𐤈",
"t": "Grand Harbor, Cospicua"
},
"expansion": "Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “Grand Harbor, Cospicua”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "la",
"3": "Melita"
},
"expansion": "Latin Melita",
"name": "der"
}
],
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{
"form": "Μελῐ́τη",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Melítē",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "Μελῐ́της",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Attic declension-1",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "grc-decl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "First declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "ἡ Μελῐ́τη",
"roman": "hē Melítē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τῆς Μελῐ́της",
"roman": "tês Melítēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τῇ Μελῐ́τῃ",
"roman": "têi Melítēi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τὴν Μελῐ́την",
"roman": "tḕn Melítēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Μελῐ́τη",
"roman": "Melítē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Μελῐ́της",
"2": "f",
"3": "first",
"head": "Μελῐ́τη"
},
"expansion": "Μελῐ́τη • (Melítē) f (genitive Μελῐ́της); first declension",
"name": "grc-proper noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Μελῐ́τη",
"2": "ης",
"form": "sing"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
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"name": "Islands",
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"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
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},
{
"kind": "place",
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"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
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},
{
"_dis": "46 43 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 36 22",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 40 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 39 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 41 14",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 38 27",
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"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Malta (an island in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta)"
],
"id": "en-Μελίτη-grc-name-pAreUvG1",
"links": [
[
"Malta",
"Malta#English"
],
[
"Mediterranean",
"Mediterranean#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
"name": "Cities in Malta",
"orig": "grc:Cities in Malta",
"parents": [
"Cities",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
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"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "46 43 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 36 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 40 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 39 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 41 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 38 27",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
"name": "Islands",
"orig": "grc:Islands",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Mdina (a city on the island of Malta, Malta)"
],
"id": "en-Μελίτη-grc-name-c-SH11DK",
"links": [
[
"Mdina",
"Mdina#English"
],
[
"Malta",
"Malta#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
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"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
"name": "Places in Croatia",
"orig": "grc:Places in Croatia",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "46 43 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 36 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 40 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 39 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 41 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 38 27",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "grc",
"name": "Islands",
"orig": "grc:Islands",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Mljet (an island in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia)"
],
"id": "en-Μελίτη-grc-name-pjRB~zr~",
"links": [
[
"Mljet",
"Mljet#English"
],
[
"Adriatic",
"Adriatic#English"
],
[
"Croatia",
"Croatia#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/me.lí.tɛː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me.lí.tɛː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.te̝/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "Μελίτη"
}
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek 3-syllable words",
"Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
"Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns",
"Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension",
"Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns",
"Ancient Greek lemmas",
"Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
"Ancient Greek proper nouns",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Latin",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Phoenician",
"Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η",
"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"grc:Islands"
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "Melitaîon",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"noun"
],
"word": "Μελῐταῖον"
},
{
"roman": "Meliteús",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "Μελῐτεύς"
},
{
"roman": "Melitḗïos",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "Μελῐτήϊος"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "aii",
"2": "ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "mīleṭa"
},
"expansion": "→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ (mīleṭa)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܝܼܠܹܛܵܐ (mīleṭa)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "Mélitè",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: Mélitè",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ French: Mélitè"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Melite",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Latin: Melite\nEnglish: Melite",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Latin: Melite\nEnglish: Melite"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "Melita"
},
"expansion": "Latin: Melita, Melitē, Malta\n→ Arabic: مَالِطَا (māliṭā)\nMaltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: مالطه (malta)\nTurkish: Malta\n→ South Levantine Arabic: مالطا (mālṭa)\nEnglish: Melita\n→ Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ\nSerbo-Croatian: Mljet\n→ English: Mljet\n→ Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)\nVenetian: Meleda\n→ Italian: Meleda\n→ English: Meleda (obsolete)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Latin: Melita, Melitē, Malta\n→ Arabic: مَالِطَا (māliṭā)\nMaltese: Malta (see there for further descendants)\n→ Ottoman Turkish: مالطه (malta)\nTurkish: Malta\n→ South Levantine Arabic: مالطا (mālṭa)\nEnglish: Melita\n→ Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ\nSerbo-Croatian: Mljet\n→ English: Mljet\n→ Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)\nVenetian: Meleda\n→ Italian: Meleda\n→ English: Meleda (obsolete)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "μέλι",
"3": "-η",
"t1": "honey",
"t2": "-a: forming feminine place names"
},
"expansion": "μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -η (-ē, “-a: forming feminine place names”)",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "uncertain",
"name": "uncertain"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "phn",
"3": "𐤌𐤋𐤈",
"t": "Grand Harbor, Cospicua"
},
"expansion": "Phoenician 𐤌𐤋𐤈 (mlṭ, “Grand Harbor, Cospicua”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "la",
"3": "Melita"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
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{
"form": "Μελῐ́τη",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Melítē",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "Μελῐ́της",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Attic declension-1",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "grc-decl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "First declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "ἡ Μελῐ́τη",
"roman": "hē Melítē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τῆς Μελῐ́της",
"roman": "tês Melítēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τῇ Μελῐ́τῃ",
"roman": "têi Melítēi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "τὴν Μελῐ́την",
"roman": "tḕn Melítēn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Μελῐ́τη",
"roman": "Melítē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Μελῐ́της",
"2": "f",
"3": "first",
"head": "Μελῐ́τη"
},
"expansion": "Μελῐ́τη • (Melítē) f (genitive Μελῐ́της); first declension",
"name": "grc-proper noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "Μελῐ́τη",
"2": "ης",
"form": "sing"
},
"name": "grc-decl"
}
],
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
"grc:Islands",
"grc:Places in Malta"
],
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"Malta (an island in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta)"
],
"links": [
[
"Malta",
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],
[
"Mediterranean",
"Mediterranean#English"
]
]
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{
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"grc:Cities in Malta",
"grc:Places in Malta"
],
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"Mdina (a city on the island of Malta, Malta)"
],
"links": [
[
"Mdina",
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],
[
"Malta",
"Malta#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"grc:Islands",
"grc:Places in Croatia"
],
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"Mljet (an island in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia)"
],
"links": [
[
"Mljet",
"Mljet#English"
],
[
"Adriatic",
"Adriatic#English"
],
[
"Croatia",
"Croatia#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/me.lí.tɛː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/me.lí.tɛː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.te̝/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈli.ti/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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