"μέλισσα" meaning in Ancient Greek

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "Mélissă",
      "word": "Μέλισσᾰ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissaîos",
      "word": "μελισσαῖος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melísseios",
      "word": "μελίσσειος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melisseús",
      "word": "μελισσεύς"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissḗeis",
      "word": "μελισσήεις"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissía",
      "word": "μελισσία"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melíssios",
      "word": "μελίσσιος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissobótanon",
      "word": "μελισσοβότανον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóbotos",
      "word": "μελισσόβοτος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissokómos",
      "word": "μελισσοκόμος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissokrás",
      "word": "μελισσοκράς"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissonómos",
      "word": "μελισσονόμος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóomai",
      "word": "μελισσόομαι"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissopólos",
      "word": "μελισσοπόλος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissopónos",
      "word": "μελισσοπόνος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissórutos",
      "word": "μελισσόρυτος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissosóos",
      "word": "μελισσοσόος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóteuktos",
      "word": "μελισσότευκτος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissotróphos",
      "word": "μελισσοτρόφος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissourgós",
      "word": "μελισσουργός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissophágos",
      "word": "μελισσοφάγος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissophátnē",
      "word": "μελισσοφάτνη"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóphonos",
      "word": "μελισσόφονος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóphullon",
      "word": "μελισσόφυλλον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissóphuton",
      "word": "μελισσόφυτον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "melissṓn",
      "word": "μελισσών"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "μέλισσα"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "melis",
            "3": "meliz",
            "lb": "dialectal",
            "t1": "honey bee",
            "t2": "honey bee"
          },
          "expansion": "Turkish: melis (“honey bee”), meliz (“honey bee”) — dialectal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Turkish: melis (“honey bee”), meliz (“honey bee”) — dialectal"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mul",
            "2": "Melissa",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Translingual: Melissa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Translingual: Melissa"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mélit",
        "4": "",
        "5": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "bletë"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian bletë",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "मधुलिह्"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "*meliťťa"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "μέλι",
        "3": "-ια",
        "alt1": "μέλιτ-",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "μέλιτ- (mélit-) + -ια (-ia)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Potentially haplologized from *μελιλίχια (*melilíkhia), from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”) + *leyǵʰ- (“lick”). Compare Albanian bletë and Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih).\nAlternatively from Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa, equivalent to μέλιτ- (mélit-) + -ια (-ia).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "μέλισσᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mélissă",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσης",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ μέλισσᾰ",
      "roman": "hē mélissă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ μέλισσαι",
      "roman": "hai mélissai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς μελίσσης",
      "roman": "tês melíssēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσαιν",
      "roman": "melíssain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελισσῶν",
      "roman": "melissôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ μελίσσῃ",
      "roman": "têi melíssēi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσαιν",
      "roman": "melíssain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς μελίσσαις",
      "roman": "taîs melíssais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν μέλισσᾰν",
      "roman": "tḕn mélissăn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς μελίσσᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s melíssās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλισσᾰ",
      "roman": "mélissă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλισσαι",
      "roman": "mélissai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλιττᾰ",
      "roman": "mélittă",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Attic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μελίσσης",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "μέλισσᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "μέλισσᾰ • (mélissă) f (genitive μελίσσης); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μέλισσᾰ",
        "2": "μελίσσης"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bee"
      ],
      "id": "en-μέλισσα-grc-noun-YsuBtZBK",
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "honey"
      ],
      "id": "en-μέλισσα-grc-noun-pV4uOEal",
      "links": [
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) honey"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)"
      ],
      "id": "en-μέλισσα-grc-noun-yjX94GLD",
      "links": [
        [
          "poet",
          "poet"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 8 15 41 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 10 19 48 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "priestess at Delphi"
      ],
      "id": "en-μέλισσα-grc-noun-hsWYfqF0",
      "links": [
        [
          "priestess",
          "priestess"
        ],
        [
          "Delphi",
          "Delphi"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "grc:Philosophy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 6 13 33 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 4 8 21 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 10 11 11 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Hymenopterans",
          "orig": "grc:Hymenopterans",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any pure being"
      ],
      "id": "en-μέλισσα-grc-noun-AF5BAssM",
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "being",
          "being"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Neoplatonist philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mé.lis.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.li.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mé.lis.sa/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.li.sa/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "μέλισσα"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 3-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Ancient Greek first-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Hymenopterans"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Mélissă",
      "word": "Μέλισσᾰ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissaîos",
      "word": "μελισσαῖος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melísseios",
      "word": "μελίσσειος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melisseús",
      "word": "μελισσεύς"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissḗeis",
      "word": "μελισσήεις"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissía",
      "word": "μελισσία"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melíssios",
      "word": "μελίσσιος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissobótanon",
      "word": "μελισσοβότανον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóbotos",
      "word": "μελισσόβοτος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissokómos",
      "word": "μελισσοκόμος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissokrás",
      "word": "μελισσοκράς"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissonómos",
      "word": "μελισσονόμος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóomai",
      "word": "μελισσόομαι"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissopólos",
      "word": "μελισσοπόλος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissopónos",
      "word": "μελισσοπόνος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissórutos",
      "word": "μελισσόρυτος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissosóos",
      "word": "μελισσοσόος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóteuktos",
      "word": "μελισσότευκτος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissotróphos",
      "word": "μελισσοτρόφος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissourgós",
      "word": "μελισσουργός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissophágos",
      "word": "μελισσοφάγος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissophátnē",
      "word": "μελισσοφάτνη"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóphonos",
      "word": "μελισσόφονος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóphullon",
      "word": "μελισσόφυλλον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissóphuton",
      "word": "μελισσόφυτον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "melissṓn",
      "word": "μελισσών"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "μέλισσα"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: μέλισσα (mélissa)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "melis",
            "3": "meliz",
            "lb": "dialectal",
            "t1": "honey bee",
            "t2": "honey bee"
          },
          "expansion": "Turkish: melis (“honey bee”), meliz (“honey bee”) — dialectal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Turkish: melis (“honey bee”), meliz (“honey bee”) — dialectal"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mul",
            "2": "Melissa",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Translingual: Melissa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Translingual: Melissa"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mélit",
        "4": "",
        "5": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "bletë"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian bletë",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "मधुलिह्"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "μέλι",
        "3": "-ια",
        "alt1": "μέλιτ-",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "μέλιτ- (mélit-) + -ια (-ia)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Potentially haplologized from *μελιλίχια (*melilíkhia), from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”) + *leyǵʰ- (“lick”). Compare Albanian bletë and Sanskrit मधुलिह् (madhulih).\nAlternatively from Proto-Hellenic *meliťťa, equivalent to μέλιτ- (mélit-) + -ια (-ia).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "μέλισσᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mélissă",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσης",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ μέλισσᾰ",
      "roman": "hē mélissă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ μέλισσαι",
      "roman": "hai mélissai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς μελίσσης",
      "roman": "tês melíssēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσαιν",
      "roman": "melíssain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελισσῶν",
      "roman": "melissôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ μελίσσῃ",
      "roman": "têi melíssēi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσαιν",
      "roman": "melíssain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς μελίσσαις",
      "roman": "taîs melíssais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν μέλισσᾰν",
      "roman": "tḕn mélissăn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς μελίσσᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s melíssās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλισσᾰ",
      "roman": "mélissă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μελίσσᾱ",
      "roman": "melíssā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλισσαι",
      "roman": "mélissai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "μέλιττᾰ",
      "roman": "mélittă",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Attic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μελίσσης",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "μέλισσᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "μέλισσᾰ • (mélissă) f (genitive μελίσσης); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "μέλισσᾰ",
        "2": "μελίσσης"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "honey"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) honey"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "poet (from their culling of sweet things from nature)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poet",
          "poet"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "priestess at Delphi"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "priestess",
          "priestess"
        ],
        [
          "Delphi",
          "Delphi"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Philosophy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any pure being"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "being",
          "being"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Neoplatonist philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Neoplatonist philosophy) any pure being"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mé.lis.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.li.sa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mé.lis.sa/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.lis.sa/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.li.sa/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "μέλισσα"
}