mel
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mel (uncountable)
[edit] Albanian
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mel m.
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mel m.
[edit] Catalan
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From Latin mel (“‘honey’”). Compare French miel, Italian miele, Portuguese mel, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.
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mel f.
[edit] Danish
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From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₁- (“‘to grind, rub, break up’”).
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mel n. (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)
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mel
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mel m. (plural meles)
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From Proto-Indo-European *mélh₁-it-. Cognates include Ancient Greek μέλι (meli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and possibly Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).
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mel (genitive mellis); n, third declension
- honey
- c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Truculentus, 2.4.20
- hoc est melle dulci dulcius
- This is honey sweeter than sweet honey.
- hoc est melle dulci dulcius
- c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Truculentus, 2.4.20
- (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
- c. 35-100 AD — Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 3.1.5
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- c. 35-100 AD — Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 3.1.5
- (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
- c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Bacchides, 18
- cor meum spes mea / mel meum suavitudo cibus gaudium
- My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food delight.
- cor meum spes mea / mel meum suavitudo cibus gaudium
- c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Bacchides, 18
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| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mel | mella |
| genitive | mellis | mellum |
| dative | mellī | mellibus |
| accusative | mel | mella |
| ablative | melle | mellibus |
| vocative | mel | mella |
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- “mel” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
[edit] Norwegian
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mel m.
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From Latin mel (“‘honey’”). Compare Catalan mel, French miel, Italian miele, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.
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mel m.
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