μέλι

From Proto-Indo-European *mélit. Cognates include Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

μέλῐ • (méli) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension

1. honey
2. anything sweet

μέλι is also sometimes used as the dative singular.

• μέλισσᾰ (mélissa)
• μελίτινος (melítinos)
• ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli)

• Greek: μέλι (méli)
• Hawaiian: meli

• μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέλι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μέλι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μέλι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μέλι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μέλι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3192 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • honey idem, page 404.
  • syrup idem, page 851.

From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.

Homophones: μέλει (mélei), μέλη (méli), μέλλει (méllei)

μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)

1. honey

• κυψέλη f (kypséli, “beehive”)
• κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “honeycomb”)

• μέλισσα f (mélissa, “bee”)
• μελίσσι n (melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)

• μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el