melina

melina f (plural meline) (More fully: fare la melina)

1. (soccer) A tactic, in the final minutes of a game, in which the winning side maintains possession of the ball with a series of short passes.

• lamine

From melinus (“of or pertaining to honey”), from mel (“honey”).

• mellina

melina f (genitive melinae); first declension

1. mead

First-declension noun.

• (mead): hydromeli

From mēlīnus (“of or pertaining to a marten”), from mēles (“marten, badger”).

• mellīna

mēlīna f (genitive mēlīnae); first declension

1. A purse or wallet made of marten-skin.

First-declension noun.

• mēles
• mēlīnus

• melina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• melina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈlʲi.na/

melina f

1. (colloquial, derogatory) hideout; den; place where illegal wares are stored and sold
2. (colloquial, derogatory) decrepit, sleazy dwelling or establishment
3. (slang, humorous) room that houses a party during a group excursion