mella

See also: Mella, mellá, and mełła

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtla/
• Rhymes: -ɛtla

Noun

mella f (genitive singular mellu, nominative plural mellur)

1. whore, hooker

   Synonym: vændiskona

Declension

declension of mella

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mella	mellan	mellur	mellurnar
accusative	mellu	melluna	mellur	mellurnar
dative	mellu	mellunni	mellum	mellunum
genitive	mellu	mellunnar	mella/mellna	mellanna/mellnanna

Derived terms

• melludólgur (“pimp”)
• mellufær

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Latin

Etymology

From mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmel.la/, [ˈmɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmel.la/, [ˈmɛlːä]

Noun

mella f (genitive mellae); first declension

1. honey-water

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mella	mellae
Genitive	mellae	mellārum
Dative	mellae	mellīs
Accusative	mellam	mellās
Ablative	mellā	mellīs
Vocative	mella	mellae

Related terms

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’s 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

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Spanish

Noun

mella f (plural mellas)

1. nick, dent, scratch
2. impression

Related terms

• mellar

Verb

mella

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mellar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of mellar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mellar.