melo

See also: Melo, meló, mélo, mělo, melo-, mélo-, mēļo, and мело

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelo/
• Hyphenation: me‧lo
• Rhymes: -elo

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Noun

melo (accusative singular melon, plural meloj, accusative plural melojn)

1. badger

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Finnish

Verb

melo

1. Indicative present connegative form of meloa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of meloa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of meloa.

Anagrams

• Elmo

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.lo/

Noun

melo m (plural meli)

1. apple tree, apple

Related terms

• mela
• meleto
• melo selvatico

Anagrams

• elmo, mole

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Latin

Etymology

Attested since about late 4th century CE, since Palladius and author(s) of Historia Augusta. Seems to be a colloquial shortening of mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), probably with influence from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.loː/, [ˈmeː.ɫ̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.lo/, [ˈmɛː.lɔ]

Noun

mēlō m (genitive mēlōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Some cucurbit, likely an apple-shaped melon.
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 4.9.5:

     Nunc melones serendi rarius: distent inter se semina pedibus duobus, locis subactis, vel pastinatis, maxime arenis.

     Now melons are to be sown: let the seeds be two feet distant, in places well wrought and pastinated, mostly in sand.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēlō	mēlōnēs
Genitive	mēlōnis	mēlōnum
Dative	mēlōnī	mēlōnibus
Accusative	mēlōnem	mēlōnēs
Ablative	mēlōne	mēlōnibus
Vocative	mēlō	mēlōnēs

Related terms

• mālum
• mālus
• mēlopepō

Descendants

• Asturian: melón
• Catalan: meló
• Old French: melon
  • → Middle Dutch: melone
    • Afrikaans: meloen
    • Dutch: meloen
  • → Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
    • → English: melon
      • → Japanese: メロン
      • → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
      • → Welsh: melon
  • French: melon
  • Norman: m'lon
• Galician: melón
• Italian: melone
  • → German: Melone
• Occitan: melon
• Piedmontese: mëlon, mlon
• Portuguese: melão
• Romagnol: mlon, mlôn, mlōn
• Spanish: melón

References

• mēlo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• melo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Latvian

Verb

melo

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of melot
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of melot
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of melot
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of melot
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of melot
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of melot

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Noun

melo n

1. flour

Descendants

• Middle High German: mël
  • Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
  • Bavarian: Mej, Möö
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Meel

    Luxembourgish: Miel

  • German: Mehl
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Mehl

  • Vilamovian: maoł
  • Yiddish: מעל‎ (mel)

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Portuguese

Verb

melo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of melar

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Serbo-Croatian

Participle

melo (Cyrillic spelling мело)

1. neuter singular active past participle of mesti