melic
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Etymology 1 edit
From Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song, lyric”).
Adjective edit
melic (comparative more melic, superlative most melic)
- Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. [from 17th c.]
- 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 315:
- I dined at their house, and in the evening, Miss Hart gave a demonstration of her musical and melic [translating melischen] talents.
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Etymology 2 edit
From translingual Melica (genus name), probably from Italian melica, meliga (“sorghum, millet”).
Noun edit
melic (plural melics)
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin umbilīcus, with rebracketing of l'omelic → lo melic.[1] Doublet of llombrígol.
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Noun edit
melic m (plural melics)
- navel
- Synonym: llombrígol
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 13, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Sovint em girava i una catifa de caps s'acumulava a l'alçada del meu melic.
- Often I turned around and a carpet of heads gathered at the height of my navel.
References edit
- ^ “melic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “melic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “melic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024