Melchior
See also: melchior
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Melchior, from Hebrew מלכיאור (“king of light”), from מלך (“king”) + אור (“light”).
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Noun edit
Melchior (plural Melchiors)
- A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 18 liters, equivalent to 24 standard bottles.
Proper noun edit
Melchior
- One of the Magi according to medieval Christian legend.
- (rather rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
- 1991, Angela Carter, Wise Children, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 16:
- So twin boys, our fathers, were born in the USA. Melchior and Peregrine. What names, eh? What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them? If you shorten them to 'Mel' and 'Perry', they've got a democratically twentieth-century and transatlantic ring to them.
Translations edit
one of the Magi
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Proper noun edit
Melchior
- a male given name, equivalent to English Melchior
Proper noun edit
Melchior m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Melchiors or (with an article) Melchior, feminine genitive Melchior, plural Melchiors)
- a surname transferred from the given name