mellitula

Latin

Etymology

From mellītulus (“honey-sweet, darling, lovely”), diminutive of mellītus (“honey-sweet, honeyed; darling”), from mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /melˈliː.tu.la/, [mɛlˈlʲiːt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈli.tu.la/, [melˈliːt̪ulä]

Noun

mellītula f (genitive mellītulae); first declension

1. Used as a term of endearment, literally meaning little honey or little sweetheart.

   Synonyms: mel, melculus, mellilla, mellītus

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.22:

     Patere, ōrō tē, […] impertīre nōbīs ūnctulum indidem, per istās tuās papillās, mea mellītula.

     I beg you, please hand me a little ointment from there, I beg you by these pretty breasts of yours, my little sweetheart.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mellītula	mellītulae
Genitive	mellītulae	mellītulārum
Dative	mellītulae	mellītulīs
Accusative	mellītulam	mellītulās
Ablative	mellītulā	mellītulīs
Vocative	mellītula	mellītulae

Related terms

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mella
• mellāceum
• mellārium
• mellārius
• mellātiō
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex
• mellificium
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger
• mellīgō
• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

• “mellitula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press