mel

Shortening of melody.

mel (plural mels)

1. (psychoacoustics) A common scale of pitches that are perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another, or one unit on that scale.

• EML, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

Borrowed from Latin milium.

mel m (definite singular meli)

1. millet

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

mel m

1. honey

From Old Occitan mel, from Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Compare French miel, Italian miele, Portuguese mel, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl/

mel f (plural mels)

1. honey

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

mel m

1. honey

From Latin mīlle.

mel

1. thousand

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

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

1. flour

mel

1. eye

From Old Portuguese mel, from Latin mel (“honey”).

mel m (plural meles)

1. honey

mēl

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

From Latin mel (“honey”).

mel

1. honey

From Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognates include Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [mɛɫ]

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
   • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 2.4.20:

     hoc est melle dulci dulcius

     This is honey sweeter than sweet honey.

     (Can we verify this quotation?)
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.

Third declension neuter i-stem.

• Note that the ablative singular melle has the alternative form melli.

• (darling, honey): mellītus
• (sweetness): dulcēdō, dulcitās, dulcitūdō, dulcor, mellinia

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

• melle

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːl/

mel (plural mels)

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

• English: meal

• mjøl (also Nynorsk)

From Old Norse mjǫl

mel n (definite singular melet)

1. flour, meal

• beinmel
• fiskemel
• hvetemel
• melaktig

• “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

mel

1. present tense of mala

From Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid (“honey”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl/

mel m

1. honey
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):

     […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

• Galician: mel
• Portuguese: mel

From Old Portuguese mel (“honey”), from Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid (“honey”). Compare Catalan mel, French miel, Italian miele, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɫ/

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• Hyphenation: mel
• Rhymes: -ɛw

mel m (plural meles or méis)

1. honey

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mel.

• melado
• melar

• (Sursilvan) mèl
• (Sutsilvan) meal
• (Surmiran) mêl

From Latin mel (“honey”).

mel m (plural mels)

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

• (honey): mel d'avieuls

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

mel (plural mels)

1. sea

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel