mel
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Shortening of melody.
NounEdit
mel (plural mels)
- (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
Further readingEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
mel (uncountable)
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.
NounEdit
mel m (definite singular meli)
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
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
NounEdit
mel f (plural mels)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Inherited from Late Latin mēlum, variant of mālum (“apple”).
NounEdit
mel m (plural mels)
Etymology 3Edit
PronounEdit
mel
Further readingEdit
- “mel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “mel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Classical NahuatlEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mēl inan
- 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
MutationEdit
Cornish consonant mutation | |||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
mel | vel | unchanged | unchanged | fel | vel |
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mel
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
mel
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)
DeclensionEdit
neuter gender |
Singular | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mel | melet |
genitive | mels | melets |
Further readingEdit
- “mel” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “mel” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
DhuwalEdit
NounEdit
mel
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mel m (plural meles)
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
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻
IstriotEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
NounEdit
mel
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
- 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.)
- Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,
- colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
- 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.
- Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.
- (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.
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
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
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)
- 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)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “mēl, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- mjøl (also Nynorsk)
EtymologyEdit
From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.
NounEdit
mel n (definite singular melet)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
VerbEdit
mel
Old Galician-PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mel m
- honey
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):
- […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]
- […] which are sweeter than honey […]
- […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]
DescendantsEdit
Old WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.
NounEdit
mel m
DescendantsEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Compare Galician mel, Spanish miel.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.
Derived termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
mel m (plural meli)
DeclensionEdit
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *melem, from Latin mel.
NounEdit
mel m (plural mels)
SynonymsEdit
- (honey): mel d'avieuls
VolapükEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French mer (“sea”), with the 'r' turned into 'l'.
NounEdit
mel (nominative plural mels)