melligo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin melligo

Noun

melligo (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) honeydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 melligo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

From mel (“honey”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /melˈliː.ɡoː/, [mɛlˈliː.ɡoː]

Noun

mellīgō f (genitive mellīginis); third declension

  1. A honeylike juice, sucked by bees from plants; propolis, bee-glue, hive dross.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mellīgō mellīginēs
Genitive mellīginis mellīginum
Dative mellīginī mellīginibus
Accusative mellīginem mellīginēs
Ablative mellīgine mellīginibus
Vocative mellīgō mellīginēs
Related terms

References
  • melligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • melligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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