melado

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Noun

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

  1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈlado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Etymology 1

From melar (“to sweeten with honey”).

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

  1. molasses

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
  3. sticky
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Etymology 2

From melar (“to wither, dry up”).

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

  1. withered
    Synonyms: chocho, peco

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈlado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: me‧la‧do

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

  1. melado

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Further reading

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