Wiktionary

mel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mel"

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Shortening of melody.

NounEdit

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 readingEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin mel (“honey”).

NounEdit

mel (uncountable)

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

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

NounEdit

mel m (definite singular meli)

  1. millet

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mel m

  1. honey

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

mel f (plural mels)

  1. honey
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Balearics, anatomy) cheekbone
    Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3Edit

PronounEdit

mel

  1. (archaic) Contraction of me el.

Further readingEdit

Classical NahuatlEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mēl inan

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

CornishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

NounEdit

mel m

  1. honey

MutationEdit

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

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mel

  1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

DalmatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mīlle.

NumeralEdit

mel

  1. thousand

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

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

  1. flour

DeclensionEdit

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

Further readingEdit

DhuwalEdit

NounEdit

mel

  1. eye

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mel m (plural meles)

  1. honey

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “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.

GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

mēl

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

IstriotEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

mel

  1. honey

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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 [bees] 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. 95 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.

DeclensionEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Vulgar Latin: *melem m or f (see there for further descendants)

ReferencesEdit

  • “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mel (plural meles)

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

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.

NounEdit

mel n (definite singular melet)

  1. flour, meal

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

mel

  1. present of mala

Old Galician-PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mel m

  1. honey

DescendantsEdit

Old WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

mel m

  1. honey

DescendantsEdit

PortugueseEdit

 mel on Portuguese Wikipedia
 
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EtymologyEdit

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

Compare Galician mel, Spanish miel.

PronunciationEdit

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: mel

NounEdit

mel m (plural méis or meles)

  1. honey

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived termsEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English mel.

NounEdit

mel m (plural meli)

  1. mel

DeclensionEdit

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

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *melem, from Latin mel.

NounEdit

mel m (plural mels)

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

SynonymsEdit

VolapükEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

mel (nominative plural mels)

  1. sea

DeclensionEdit

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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