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Latin
Etymology
A Celtic/Gaulish name Melodonum, the second element from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, fort”) and the first from *mello-, *melno-, which could be from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“limb”), see also Breton mell, Irish meall (“mass, lump”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Melodūnum n sg (genitive Melodūnī); second declension
- A town of the Senones in Gallia Lugdunensis, now Melun
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
References
- “Melodunum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “meall”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN