marmelo

Galician

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmelo, from Latin melimelum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

marmelo m (plural marmelos)

Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “marmelo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marmelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marmelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marmelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmelo, from Latin melimēlum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) +‎ μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”). Compare Fala marmelu, Galician marmelo and Spanish membrillo.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /maʁˈmɛ.lu/ [maɦˈmɛ.lu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /maɾˈmɛ.lu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maʁˈmɛ.lu/
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /maɻˈmɛ.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maʁˈmɛ.lo/ [maɦˈmɛ.lo]

marmelo m (plural marmelos)

quince (tree or fruit)
(Portugal, colloquial, offensive) bloke, person (unnamed individual)
Synonym: marmanjo
(Portugal, humorous, colloquial, chiefly in the plural) boob (breast)