Alyssa means “noble natured”, “of noble type”, “noble person”, “truth”, “disclosure”, “unconcealedness”, “revealing” and “unclosedness” (from Alicia or Adelheid). The name of the Alyssum flower derived from Greek “a/ἀ”, a negative prefix, and “lússa/λύσσᾰ” meaning “mania” or “madness”, because it was believed to cure rabies or madness.
