Melite

Latin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Μελῐ́τη (Melítē), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li.teː/, [ˈmɛlʲɪt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li.te/, [ˈmɛːlit̪e]

Proper noun

Melitē f sg (genitive Melitēs); first declension

1. A city in Magnesia
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.32:

     Thessaliae adnexa Magnesia est, cuius fons Libethra, oppida Iolcus, Ormenium, Pyrra, Methone, Olizon, promunturium Sepias, oppida Castana, Spalathra, promunturium Aeantium, oppida Meliboea, Rhizus, Erymnae, ostium Penii, oppida Homolium, Orthe, Iresiae, Pelinna, Thaumacie, Gyrton, Crannon, Acharne, Dotion, Melite, Phylace, Potniae.

2. Alternative form of Melita

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Melitē
Genitive	Melitēs
Dative	Melitae
Accusative	Melitēn
Ablative	Melitē
Vocative	Melitē
Locative	Melitae

Descendants

• English: Melite

Further reading

• “Mĕlĭtē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mĕlĭtē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 962/3.