mel

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Shortening of melody.

Noun[edit]

mel (plural mels)

  1. (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Further reading[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun[edit]

mel (uncountable)

  1. Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Anagrams[edit]

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

Noun[edit]

mel m (definite meli)

  1. millet

Breton[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel m

  1. honey

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun[edit]

mel f (plural mels)

  1. honey
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Late Latin mēlum, variant of mālum (“apple”).

Noun[edit]

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Balearics, anatomy) cheekbone
    Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mel

  1. (archaic) Contraction of me el. (in medieval Catalan, nowadays written as me'l)

Further reading[edit]

Classical Nahuatl[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mēl inan

  1. second-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) your liver.

Cornish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun[edit]

mel m

  1. honey

Mutation[edit]

  Mutation of mel  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mel vel unchanged unchanged fel vel

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mel

  1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral[edit]

mel

  1. thousand

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)

  1. flour

Declension[edit]

Declension of mel
neuter
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative mel melet
genitive mels melets

Further reading[edit]

Dhuwal[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel

  1. eye

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel m (plural meles)

  1. honey

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mēl

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun[edit]

mel

  1. honey

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (*mel-it), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates commestible substances (compare IE *sép-it «wheat»). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr), Hittite milit and Luvic mallit-.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

  1. honey
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743-744:
      colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
      Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet.
      Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,
      and he has the rewards of discovering honey.
      (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4:
      [...] esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre.
      And his food was locusts and wild honey.
    • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann):
      Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.
      Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.
  2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
    • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, 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.
  3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18:
      cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium
      My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mel mella
Genitive mellis mellium
mellum
Dative mellī mellibus
Accusative mel mella
Ablative melle
mellī 		mellibus
Vocative mel mella

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Vulgar Latin: *melem m or f (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  • “mel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mel”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)

Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old English mǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel (plural meles)

  1. A time, occasion or event.
  2. The occasion when a meal is consumed; mealtime.
  3. A meal or feast.

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.

Noun[edit]

mel n (definite singular melet)

  1. flour, meal

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Verb[edit]

mel

  1. present of mala

Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel m

  1. honey

Descendants[edit]

Old Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

Noun[edit]

mel m

  1. honey

Descendants[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

 mel on Portuguese Wikipedia
mel

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Compare Galician mel m, Spanish miel f.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mel m (plural méis or meles)

  1. honey

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English mel.

Noun[edit]

mel m (plural meli)

  1. mel

Declension[edit]

Declension of mel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mel melul (niște) meli melii
genitive/dative (unui) mel melului (unor) meli melilor
vocative melule melilor

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *melem m, from Latin mel n.

Noun[edit]

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) honey
  2. (Rumantsch Grischun) jam

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Volapük[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French mer (“sea”), with the 'r' turned into 'l'.

Noun[edit]

mel (nominative plural mels)

  1. sea

Declension[edit]

declension of mel
singular plural
nominative mel mels
genitive mela melas
dative mele meles
accusative meli melis
vocative 1 o mel! o mels!
predicative 2 melu melus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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