meló

See also: melo, Melo, mélo, melô, mělo, melo-, mélo-, and mēļo

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepōnem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈlo]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧ló

Noun

meló m (plural melons)

1. melon
2. (colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) can of worms

Derived terms

• meló d'aigua
• meló d'Alger
• meló d'Ontinyent
• meló de moro
• meló de tot l’any
• meloner
• melonera

Further reading

• “meló”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “meló”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “meló” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Yiddish מלאָכה (melokhe, “work”), from Hebrew מלאכה (melakah, “work”). Perhaps via German Maloche. First attested in 1877.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛloː]
• Hyphenation: me‧ló
• Rhymes: -loː

Noun

meló (plural melók)

1. (colloquial) work

   Synonyms: munka, (task) feladat

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	meló	melók
accusative	melót	melókat
dative	melónak	melóknak
instrumental	melóval	melókkal
causal-final	melóért	melókért
translative	melóvá	melókká
terminative	melóig	melókig
essive-formal	melóként	melókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	melóban	melókban
superessive	melón	melókon
adessive	melónál	melóknál
illative	melóba	melókba
sublative	melóra	melókra
allative	melóhoz	melókhoz
elative	melóból	melókból
delative	melóról	melókról
ablative	melótól	melóktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	melóé	melóké
non-attributive possessive – plural	melóéi	melókéi

Possessive forms of meló

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	melóm	melóim
2nd person sing.	melód	melóid
3rd person sing.	melója	melói
1st person plural	melónk	melóink
2nd person plural	melótok	melóitok
3rd person plural	melójuk	melóik

Derived terms

• melós
• melózik

Further reading

• meló in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlo/ [meˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: me‧ló

Verb

meló

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of melar