mellaceum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mel

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s

Proto-Italic *-āks

Latin -āx

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Indo-European *-éyos

Proto-Italic *-ejos

Proto-Italic *-eos

Latin -eus

Latin -āceus

Latin mellāceum

From mel (“honey”) + -āceus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛlˈlaː.ke.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [melˈlaː.t͡ʃe.um]

Noun

mellāceum n (genitive mellāceī); second declension

1. must

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mellāceum	mellācea
genitive	mellāceī	mellāceōrum
dative	mellāceō	mellāceīs
accusative	mellāceum	mellācea
ablative	mellāceō	mellāceīs
vocative	mellāceum	mellācea

Related terms

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

Descendants

• French: mélasse

References

• “mellaceum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mellaceum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.