mel

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

  1. (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Further reading

Etymology 2

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel (uncountable)

  1. Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

Noun

mel m (definite meli)

  1. millet

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

  1. honey
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin mēlum, variant of mālum (“apple”).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Balearic, anatomy) cheekbone
    Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3

Pronoun

mel

  1. (archaic) Contraction of me el. (in medieval Catalan, nowadays written as me'l)

Further reading

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

Noun

mēl inan

  1. second-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) your liver.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli (“honey”) (compare Welsh mêl, Old Irish mil), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid, whence also Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Mutation

  Mutation of mel  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mel vel unchanged unchanged fel vel

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

mel

  1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mel

  1. thousand

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)

  1. flour

Declension

Declension of mel
neuter
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative mel melet
genitive mels melets

Further reading

Dhuwal

Noun

mel

  1. eye

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

Noun

mel m (plural meles)

  1. honey

Derived terms

References

  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

mēl

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel

  1. honey

References

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mel-it (“honey”), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates comestible substances (compare Proto-Indo-European *sép-it (“wheat”)). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What are some descendants of *sép-it?”) Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr), Hittite (milit), Luwian (mallit-).

Pronunciation

Noun

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

  1. honey
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743–744:
      colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
      Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet.
      Liber gathers the wandering and confines them in a hollow tree,
      and he has the rewards of discovering honey.
      (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4:
      esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre.
      And his food was locusts and wild honey.
    • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann):
      Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.
      Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.
  2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
    • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5:
      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.
  3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18:
      cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium
      My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mel mella
Genitive mellis mellium
mellum
Dative mellī mellibus
Accusative mel mella
Ablative melle
mellī 		mellibus
Vocative mel mella

Synonyms

Derived terms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *melem m or f (see there for further 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
  • mel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mel”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370

Malay

Etymology

From English mail.

Pronunciation

Noun

mél (Jawi spelling ميل, plural mel-mel, informal 1st possessive melku, 2nd possessive melmu, 3rd possessive melnya)

  1. (uncommon, mostly in compounds) mail
    Synonyms: pos, surat

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English mǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą.

Pronunciation

Noun

mel (plural meles)

  1. A time, occasion or event.
  2. The occasion when a meal is consumed; mealtime.
  3. A meal or feast.

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.

Noun

mel n (definite singular melet)

  1. flour, meal

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mel

  1. present of mala

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Descendants

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Descendants

Portuguese

 mel on Portuguese Wikipedia
mel

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Compare Galician mel m, Spanish miel f.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

mel m (plural méis or meles)

  1. honey

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mel.

Noun

mel m (plural meli)

  1. mel

Declension

Declension of mel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mel melul (niște) meli melii
genitive/dative (unui) mel melului (unor) meli melilor
vocative melule melilor

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) honey
  2. (Rumantsch Grischun) jam

Synonyms

References

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French mer (“sea”), with the 'r' turned into 'l'.

Noun

mel (nominative plural mels)

  1. sea

Declension

declension of mel
singular plural
nominative mel mels
genitive mela melas
dative mele meles
accusative meli melis
vocative 1 o mel! o mels!
predicative 2 melu melus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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