melo

See also: Melo, meló, mélo, mělo, melo-, mélo-, mēļo, and мело

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmelo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: me‧lo

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Noun

melo (accusative singular melon, plural meloj, accusative plural melojn)

1. badger

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Finnish

Verb

melo

1. (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of meloa
2. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of meloa
3. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of meloa

Anagrams

• Elmo

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

Noun

melo m (plural meli)

1. apple tree, apple

Related terms

• mela
• meleto
• melo selvatico

Anagrams

• elmo, mole

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Latin

Etymology

A colloquial shortening of mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), probably with influence from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

References

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.loː/, [ˈmeːɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.lo/, [ˈmɛːlo]

Noun

mēlō m (genitive mēlōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) An apple-shaped melon.
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 4.9.5:

     Nunc melones serendi rarius.

     Now melons are to be sown.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēlō	mēlōnēs
Genitive	mēlōnis	mēlōnum
Dative	mēlōnī	mēlōnibus
Accusative	mēlōnem	mēlōnēs
Ablative	mēlōne	mēlōnibus
Vocative	mēlō	mēlōnēs

Related terms

• mēlopepo

Descendants

• Asturian: melón
• Catalan: meló
• Old French: melon
  • → Middle English: meloun, mē̆loun, melon, milon
    • English: melon
  • French: melon
  • Norman: m'lon
• Galician: melón

• Italian: melone
  • → German: Melone
• Occitan: melon
• Portuguese: melão
• Romagnol: mlon, mlôn, mlōn
• Spanish: melón

References

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

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Latvian

Verb

melo

1. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular present indicative form of melot
2. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular present indicative form of melot
3. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural present indicative form of melot
4. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular imperative form of melot
5. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular imperative form of melot
6. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural imperative form of melot

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Noun

melo n

1. flour

Descendants

• Middle High German: mël
  • Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
  • Bavarian: Mej, Möö
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Meel

    Luxembourgish: Miel

  • German: Mehl
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Mehl

  • Vilamovian: maoł
  • Yiddish: מעל‎ (mel‎)

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Portuguese

Verb

melo

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