Melita - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Proper noun
• 2 Latin
  • 2.1 Alternative forms
  • 2.2 Etymology
  • 2.3 Proper noun
    * 2.3.1 Declension
    * 2.3.2 Derived terms
    * 2.3.3 Descendants
  • 2.4 References

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Melita

1. (historical) Synonym of Malta.

• Melitē, Malta

From Ancient Greek Μελίτη (Melítē). In reference to Mdina, apparently from its role as the seat of government over the island.

Melita f sg (genitive Melitae); first declension

1. Mdina (a city on the island of Malta, Malta)
2. Malta (the largest island in the Maltese Archipelago)
3. (New Latin) Malta (an archipelago and country in Southern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea)
4. Mljet (an island in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Melitēnsis
• → Arabic: مَالِطَا (māliṭā)
  • Maltese: Malta
    * → English: Malta
    * → French: Malte
    * → Irish: Málta
    * → Italian: Malta
    * → Portuguese: Malta
    * → Sicilian: Mauta, Marta
    * → Spanish: Malta
    * → Tagalog: Malta
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مالطه (malta)
    * Turkish: Malta
  • → South Levantine Arabic: مالطا (mālṭa)
• → English: Melita
• Middle French: Melite
  • French: Mélite
• → Proto-Slavic: *Mьlětъ
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mljet
    * → English: Mljet
    * → Greek: Μλιετ (Mliet)
• Venetan: Meleda
  • → Italian: Meleda
    * → English: Meleda (obsolete)
• “Melita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Melita”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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• Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
• Latin feminine nouns
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