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Melkite

UK/ˈmɛlkʌɪt/US/ˈmɛlkaɪt/

Melkite noun: in 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.

Noun

Melkite (plural Melkites)

  1. (historical) In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.
    • [...] increasingly a majority in the Egyptian Church as well as other strongholds of Miaphysitism denounced Chalcedonian Christians as ‘Dyophysites’ and sneered at them as ‘the emperor's people’ – Melchites.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 233
  2. A member of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch or the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem; ellipsis of Orthodox Melkite.
  3. A member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church; ellipsis of Catholic Melkite.

Melkite meaning in Bengali

Melkite in Bengali

আলেকজান্দ্রিয়া

Forms of Melkite

pluralMelkites
alternative formMelchite

Origin of Melkite

From Latin Melchita, from Byzantine Greek Μελχίτης (Melkhítēs), from Classical Syriac ܡܠܟܝܐ (malkāyāʾ, “royal; royalist”) + Byzantine Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs). See these for more.

Words formed from Melkite

Questions about Melkite

What does Melkite mean?
Melkite means in 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.
What is Melkite in Bengali?
Melkite in Bengali is আলেকজান্দ্রিয়া. See Melkite meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Melkite?
Melkite is a noun.
How do you pronounce Melkite?
Melkite is pronounced /ˈmɛlkaɪt/ (US).
What is the plural of Melkite?
The plural of Melkite is Melkites.

Words near Melkite in the dictionary

  1. Melk
  2. Melkart
  3. Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
  4. melkhout
  5. melkhouts
  6. Melkite
  7. Melkite Aramaic
  8. Melkites
  9. Melkitism
  10. Melkonian
  11. Melkonians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Melkite (page history and authors); Melkite (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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