mella

See also: Mella, mellá, and mełła

Icelandic

Etymology

Unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtla/
• Rhymes: -ɛtla

Noun

mella f (genitive singular mellu, nominative plural mellur)

1. whore, hooker

   Synonym: vændiskona

Declension

Declension of mella (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mella	mellan	mellur	mellurnar
accusative	mellu	melluna	mellur	mellurnar
dative	mellu	mellunni	mellum	mellunum
genitive	mellu	mellunnar	mellna, mella	mellnanna, mellanna

Derived terms

• melludólgur (“pimp”)
• mellufær

Latin

Etymology

From mel (“honey”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛl.la]

Noun

mella

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mel

Noun

mella f (genitive mellae); first declension

1. honey-water

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mella	mellae
genitive	mellae	mellārum
dative	mellae	mellīs
accusative	mellam	mellās
ablative	mellā	mellīs
vocative	mella	mellae

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mellāceum
• mellārium
• mellārius
• mellātiō
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex
• mellificium
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger
• mellīgō
• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

• “mella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mella”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Maltese

Root
m-l-l
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مَلَّة (malla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla

Noun

mella f (plural melliet)

1. disgust

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʝa/ [ˈme.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʝa/ [ˈme.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʎa/ [ˈme.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʃa/ [ˈme.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʒa/ [ˈme.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -eʝa

• Rhymes: -eʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -eʎa (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: me‧lla

Etymology 1

Deverbal from mellar.

Noun

mella f (plural mellas)

1. nick, dent, scratch
2. impression

Derived terms

• hacer mella

Related terms

• mellar

Etymology 2

Verb

mella

1. inflection of mellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025