Melita

Melita is also the latinized form of the ancient Greek given name Μελίτη (Melite). It is probably derived from ancient Greek μέλῐτος (melitos), which is the genitive of μέλι (meli) meaning "honey". Also compare the names Meliton and Melitta in the main database.

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Melite (or Melita) was the name of several figures from Greek mythology. [noted -ed]

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melite_(mythology) (in English; mentions Melita)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*meli%2Fth&la=greek&can=*meli%2Fth (in English; this is about the name Melite)
- http://clas-lgpn2.classics.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lgpn_search.cgi?namenoaccents=%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B7 (in English; this is a list of real-life bearers from ancient Greece)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=me%2Fli&la=greek&can=me%2Fli (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9 (in English; see the inflection table, which mentions 'melitos')
- Ancient Greek words starting with melit-: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=start&lookup=melit&lang=greek (in English)

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With that said: the name Melita is also used in the modern country of Georgia. There, it was originally a contraction of Melitona, the feminine form of the aforementioned name Meliton. The Georgians write Melita as მელიტა in their language.

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- http://kids.ge/baby-name?id=153 (in Georgian)
- http://www.geogen.ge/ge/wsearch/4315/ (in Georgian; scroll down to the entry for Melita)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Melita&last=&search=Zoeken

In Eastern Europe, this is most likely a variant of Melitta, a variant of Melissa. (Although in the case of Princess Victoria Melita, it was indeed derived from Malta, which was her birthplace.)

Melit also means "honey" in Indo-European.

Comes from "meli, -itos" (i.e., "honey" in Greek). Its meaning is "a girl who is as good/sweet as honey".