Melissa
Melissa is a female given name . It comes from the Greek (Μέλισσα, Attic Μέλιττα Melitta ) and means "bee".
Mythology and antiquity
In Greek mythology and antiquity the name denotes:
- Melissa (daughter of Melissa) , a nurse of Zeus
- Melissa (daughter of Epidamnos) , the eponym of Epidamnos
- as epithets nymphs and priestesses, such as those of Demeter and the Delphic Pythia
- as the nickname Lyside , the daughter of Prokles and wife of Periander
Spellings and variants
| language | variant |
|---|---|
| German | Melissa , Melitta |
| Spanish | Melisa |
| Catalan | Melissa |
| English | Melissa |
| Polish | Melisa |
| French | Mélissa , Melina |
| Swedish | Melissa |
| Turkish | Melisa , Melis , Meliya |
| Greek | Melissa , Melina |
| Italian | Melitina , Melissa , Melina |
| Bosnian | Melisa |
name day
Name day in Germany is September 15 after St. Melitta . In other countries, the name day is April 24, according to St. Mellitus .
Well-known namesake
Melisa
- Melisa Ertürk (* 1993), Canadian soccer player
- Mellica Mehraban (also Melisa ; * 1984), Iranian-Danish actress
- Melisa Wallack (* 1968), American director and screenwriter
Melissa
- Melissa Sue Anderson (born 1962), American actress
- Melissa Auf der Maur (* 1972), Canadian rock musician
- Melissa Bean (* 1962), American politician
- Melissa Belote (* 1956), American swimmer
- Melissa Benoist (* 1988), American singer and actress
- Melissa Marie Brassell , known as Missy Monroe (* 1984), American porn actress
- Mélissa Busque (* 1990), Canadian national soccer player
- Melissa Arnette Elliott , known as Missy Elliott (* 1971), American rapper, singer and music producer
- Melissa Errico (born 1970), American actress
- Melissa Etheridge (born 1961), American singer
- Melissa George (born 1976), Australian actress
- Melissa Gilbert (born 1964), American actress
- Melissa Giove , known as Missy Giove (* 1972), American mountain biker
- Melissa Joan Hart (born 1976), American actress
- Melissa Higgins , known as Missy Higgins (* 1983), Australian singer-songwriter
- Melissa Viviane Jefferson , known as Lizzo (* 1988), American singer, rapper and songwriter
- Melissa Leo (* 1960), American actress and Oscar winner
- Melissa Manchester (* 1951), American singer and songwriter
- Melissa Mathison (1950–2015), American screenwriter
- Melissa McCarthy (born 1970), American actress
- Meli'sa Morgan ( Joyce Melissa Morgan; born 1964), American singer
- Melissa Morrison-Howard (* 1971), American athlete
- Melissa Müller (* 1967), Austrian journalist and writer
- Melissa Nathan (1968-2006), British writer
- Melissa Panarello (* 1985), Italian writer
- Melissa Rauch (* 1980), American actress
- Melissa Scott (* 1960), American writer
- Mélissa Theuriau (* 1978), French journalist
- Melissa Wu (* 1992), Australian high diver
fiction
- Melissa is a sorceress in the epic The mad Roland by Ludovico Ariosto.
- Melissa Burke is eponymous role in the sitcom Melissa & Joey
Others
- Under the title Melissa , the German director Paul May filmed a model by the English writer Francis Durbridge for German television in 1966.
- Melissa (album) is the first official album by the heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released in 1983.
See also
Wiktionary: Melissa - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
