melis

Borrowed from German Melis, from French sucre mélis, from Latin saccharum melitēnse (sugar of Malta).

melis (singular definite melissen, not used in plural form)

1. white sugar

• flormelis

• “melis” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “melis” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

mēlis

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌹𐍃

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.lis/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.lis/,

mēlis

1. genitive singular of mēlēs

• “melis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Derived from the same stem as Latvian meli (“lie, untruth”) (q.v.), made into a 2nd-declension masculine noun.^[1]

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melis m (2nd declension, feminine form: mele)

1. (male) liar, deceiver (someone who tells lies, who deceives others)

   meļu, blēžu un krāpnieku banda ― a gang of liars, swindlers, and cheats

   atmaskot meli ― to unmask a liar

   par Rabaru teica: tas esot tāds melis, ka pašu vilku varot izmelot no meža lauka ― about Rabars they said: he is such a liar, he could even convince a wolf to come out of the woods

• melīgs, melīgums
• melot