Melite

Melite

1. An ancient city in what is now Malta.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.lɪ.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.li.t̪e]

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. alternative form of Melita

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

• English: Melite

• “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.