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Mel
mel
mel
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛl/
Noun
mel m
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Provençal mel, from Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Compare French miel, Italian miele, Portuguese mel, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.
Noun
mel f (plural mels)
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).
Noun
mel m
Mutation
Cornish consonant mutation | |||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
mel | vel | unchanged | unchanged | fel | vel |
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”).
Noun
mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)
Gothic
Romanization
mēl
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognates include Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mel/
Noun
mel n (genitive mellis); third declension
- honey
- c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 2.4.20
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hoc est melle dulci dulcius
- This is honey sweeter than sweet honey.
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hoc est melle dulci dulcius
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- (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
- c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5
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Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.
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Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
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- (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
Inflection
Third declension neuter i-stem.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | mel | mella |
genitive | mellis | mellium mellum |
dative | mellī | mellibus |
accusative | mel | mella |
ablative | melle | mellibus |
vocative | mel | mella |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- mel in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mel in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mel”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)
- somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse mjǫl
Alternative forms
- mjøl (also Nynorsk)
Noun
mel n (definite singular melet)
Derived terms
References
- “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid (“honey”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛl/
Noun
mel m
- honey
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):
- […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]
- […] which are sweeter than honey […]
- […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese mel (“honey”), from Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid (“honey”). Compare Catalan mel, French miel, Italian miele, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.
Pronunciation
Noun
Quotations
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:mel.