melas

melas

1. plural of mela

• EMALS, Lemas, Salem, Selma, Smale, Smeal, almes, amels, lames, lamés, leams, males, meals, mesal, semla

From Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark, black”)

melās

1. (New Latin) dark (in colour), black
   • 4th century (Late Latin, arguably a mentioning), Pseudo-Apuleius' Herbarium, chapter XCIX. Herba hedera nigra, in: Corpus medicorum latinorum, vol. IV, 1927, p. 179:

     Nomina herbae. A Graecis dicitur cissos melas, alii cissaron, alii Nision, Galli bolus serron, Daci arpopria, Itali hedera nigra.

From Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to deceive”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲæːɫas/

mẽlas m (plural melaĩ) stress pattern 4

1. lie

• melagystė, netiesa

(Verbs)

• meluoti

(Nouns)

• melagis m / melagė f

melas

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of melar