melliculum

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from melliculus (“honey-sweet, honeyed”), from mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛlˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [melˈliː.ku.lum]

Noun

melliculum n (genitive melliculī); second declension

1. A honey-pet, honey-kin.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	melliculum	mellicula
genitive	melliculī	melliculōrum
dative	melliculō	melliculīs
accusative	melliculum	mellicula
ablative	melliculō	melliculīs
vocative	melliculum	mellicula

Related terms

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

References

• “melliculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press