English
Melkite
Melkite comes from Latin Melchita.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMelchita
- Englishearliest quotation 2009Melkite
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMelchita
- Englishearliest quotation 2009Melkite
Earliest quotation: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: “[...] increasingly a majority in the Egyptian Church as…”
Formed from -ῑ́της
Every English word from Latin Melchita
Today it means
noun In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Melchita / Melkite