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I know the name Melissa means "bee."
But I was eating a cough drop that listed its flavor in a lot of languages:
Lemon Mint
Citron-Melisse (accent on first "e")
Zitronenmelisse
Melissa Limoncella
which leads me to believe that Melissa means "mint". Does it?
But I was eating a cough drop that listed its flavor in a lot of languages:
Lemon Mint
Citron-Melisse (accent on first "e")
Zitronenmelisse
Melissa Limoncella
which leads me to believe that Melissa means "mint". Does it?
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Hi Oceane,
In my dictionaries the English word for Citron-Mélisse (French) / Zitronenmelisse (German) / Melissa Limoncella (Italian) is "balm" or "balmmint".
The melisse-/melissa-part of the words has got the same Greek root as the name Melissa, which means bee, not mint.
In Middle Latin the plant was called 'melissa', which comes from the Greek-Latin plant name 'melissó-phyllon' which means "bee leaf".
Regards, Satu
In my dictionaries the English word for Citron-Mélisse (French) / Zitronenmelisse (German) / Melissa Limoncella (Italian) is "balm" or "balmmint".
The melisse-/melissa-part of the words has got the same Greek root as the name Melissa, which means bee, not mint.
In Middle Latin the plant was called 'melissa', which comes from the Greek-Latin plant name 'melissó-phyllon' which means "bee leaf".
Regards, Satu
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