μελίττιον
μηδὲν κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλὰ καταπάττειν χύδην → not to sell by the cupful, but to dole out indiscriminately | not to sell by retail but wholesale
English (LSJ)
τό, Dim. of μέλιττα (little bee), Ar.V.367 (lyr.).
II cell of a bee's comb: in plural, honeycomb, Arist.HA624a5; cf. μελίσσειος 1.
German (Pape)
[Seite 125] τό, dim. von μέλιττα, Bienchen, Ar. Vesp. 366; Bienenzelle, Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μελίττιον: τό, ὑποκοριστ. τοῦ μέλιττα, Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 367. ΙΙ. τὸ κυψελίδιον ἐν τῇ κηρήθρᾳ, καὶ ἐν τῷ πληθ., αὐτὴ ἡ κηρήθρα, Ἀριστοτ. περὶ τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 9. 40, 8, πρβλ. κηφήνιον, σφηικίον.
Greek Monolingual
Translations
honeycomb
Albanian: huall, krodhë, qengjë, azhdë; Arabic: قَرْص اَلْعَسَل; Armenian: մեղրախորիսխ; Azerbaijani: şan; Bashkir: күҙәнәк; Basque: aberaska; Belarusian: соты; Bulgarian: пчелна пита, пита; Catalan: bresca; Chinese Cantonese: 蜂巢; Mandarin: 蜂窩, 蜂窝, 蜂巢; Czech: plástev; Dutch: raat, honingraat, bijenraat; Erzya: керяз; Esperanto: mielĉelaro, mielcxelaro, mielchelaro; Estonian: meekärg, kärg; Finnish: hunajakenno, kenno; French: rayon de miel, rayon de ruche, alvéole d'abeille, alvéole; Galician: antena, entena, favo, panal, trevo, zarapata; Georgian: ფუტკრის ფიჭა; German: Wabe, Bienenwabe, Honigwabe; Greek: κηρήθρα, κερήθρα; Ancient Greek: γλήνα, γλήνη, κηρίδιον, κηρίον, κηρός, μελικηρίδιον, μελικήριον, μελικηρίς, μελίκηρον, μελίσσια, μελίσσιον, μελίττια, μελίττιον, σχαδόνες, τενθρήνιον; Hindi: छत्ता, मधु कोष; Hungarian: lép; Icelandic: vaxkaka; Ido: vabo; Irish: cíor mheala; Italian: favo, cella, nido d'api, nido; Japanese: 蜂の巣, 蜂巣, ハニカム; Kazakh: ара ұясы; Korean: 벌집, 벌방; Kurdish Northern Kurdish: şan, şane; Kyrgyz: аары уясы; Latin: favus; Latvian: kāre, šūna; Lithuanian: korys; Luxembourgish: Ros, Wab; Macedonian: саќе; Maori: honikoma; Mongolian: зөгийн сархинаг; Navajo: tsísʼná bitsiiʼáál; Persian: شان, شان عسل; Plautdietsch: Honnichkorf; Polish: plaster miodu, plaster; Portuguese: favo; Romanian: fagure; Russian: соты; Scottish Gaelic: cìr-mheala; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: саће, сат; Roman: saće, sat; Slovak: plást; Slovene: sat, satovje; Spanish: panal; Swedish: vaxkaka, bikaka; Tagalog: anila; Tajik: шонаи асал; Thai: รังผึ้ง; Tibetan: སྦྲང་ཚང; Turkish: petek, dalak; Ukrainian: сті́льник; Urdu: چھتا, مدھو کوش; Uzbek: mumkatak, asalari uyasi; Vietnamese: tảng ong; Volapük: mielaziöbem, mielazioybem, mielaväk; Walloon: raive, tortea d' låme, raiye di låme; Welsh: crwybr
