melca
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin melica, from Latin medica (“Median”). Compare Italian meliga.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
melca f (plural melques)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “melca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “melca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “melca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “melca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.[1] Compare English milk.
Noun[edit]
melca f (genitive melcae); first declension
- some type of food made with soured milk, similar to Greek oxygala
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | melca | melcae |
| Genitive | melcae | melcārum |
| Dative | melcae | melcīs |
| Accusative | melcam | melcās |
| Ablative | melcā | melcīs |
| Vocative | melca | melcae |
Descendants[edit]
- Ancient Greek: μέλκα (mélka)
References[edit]
- “melca” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- melca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “melca”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 62
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- la:Dairy products