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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin, based on Ancient Greek μέλαινα (mélaina, “black”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
melena (uncountable)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- hematochezia (not to be confused; bright red blood in stool)
- rectorrhagia (not to be confused; bright red blood independently of stools)
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Arabic,[1] or from a substrate language.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
melena f (plural melenas)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin melēna, from Ancient Greek μέλαινα (mélaina, “black”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
melena f (plural melenas)
References[edit]
- “melena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “melena” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “melena” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “melena”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 376
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “melena”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek μέλαινα (mélaina, “black”).
Noun[edit]
melena f (plural melene)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic مُلَيِّنَة, from classical Arabic مُلَيِّنَة (mulayyina, “softening”).
Noun[edit]
melena f (plural melenas)
Derived terms[edit]
- desmelenar (“to dishevel, ruffle the hair of; to lose one's composure, let one's hair down”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Latin melēna, from Ancient Greek μέλαινα (mélaina, “black”).
Noun[edit]
melena f (plural melenas)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “melena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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