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Latin
Etymology
Gaulish/Celtic name, also spelled as Maldi, from Proto-Celtic *meldo (“pleasant”) or *mlido- (“soft”), both from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Meldī m pl (genitive Meldōrum); second declension
- A tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Iatinum
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Meldi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Meldi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Meldi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN