melligo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin melligo

Noun

melligo (uncountable)

1. (archaic) honeydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “melligo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /melˈliː.ɡoː/, [mɛlˈlʲiːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈli.ɡo/, [melˈliːɡo]

Noun

mellīgō f (genitive mellīginis); third declension

1. A honeylike juice, sucked by bees from plants; propolis, bee-glue, hive dross.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mellīgō	mellīginēs
Genitive	mellīginis	mellīginum
Dative	mellīginī	mellīginibus
Accusative	mellīginem	mellīginēs
Ablative	mellīgine	mellīginibus
Vocative	mellīgō	mellīginēs

Related terms

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mella
• mellāceum
• mellārium

• mellārius
• mellātiō
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex

• mellificium
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger

• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

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