melado

English

Alternative forms

• melada

Etymology

Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Noun

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• AMOLED, loamed

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From melar (“to sweeten with honey”).

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

1. molasses

Adjective

1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
3. sticky
4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk

Verb

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Etymology 2

From melar (“to wither, dry up”).

Adjective

1. withered

   Synonyms: chocho, peco

Verb

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlado/ [meˈla.ð̞o]

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

1. melado

Verb

1. Template:es-verb form of/participle melar.