melado

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Noun

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

  1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for melado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From melar (“to sweeten with honey”).

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

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Adjective

melado m (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
  3. sticky
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk
Conjugation
Inflection of melado
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
positive melado melada melados meladas
comparative mais melado mais melada mais melados mais meladas
superlative o mais melado
meladíssimo		 a mais melada
meladíssima		 os mais melados
meladíssimos		 as mais meladas
meladíssimas
augmentative meladão meladona meladões meladonas
diminutive meladinho meladinha meladinhos meladinhas

Verb

melado (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. masculine singular past participle of melar

Etymology 2

From melar (“to wither, dry up”).

Adjective

melado m (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable)

  1. withered
    Synonyms: chocho, peco
Conjugation
Inflection of melado
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
positive melado melada melados meladas
comparative mais melado mais melada mais melados mais meladas
superlative o mais melado
meladíssimo		 a mais melada
meladíssima		 os mais melados
meladíssimos		 as mais meladas
meladíssimas
augmentative meladão meladona meladões meladonas
diminutive meladinho meladinha meladinhos meladinhas

Verb

melado (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. masculine singular past participle of melar

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /meˈlado/, [meˈlaðo]

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

  1. melado

Verb

melado m (feminine singular melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. Masculine singular past participle of melar.
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