mel

mel

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Homophones: Mel, mell

Etymology 1

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

  1. (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Further reading

  • Mel scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Latin mel (honey).

Noun

mel (uncountable)

  1. Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Anagrams

  • EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

Noun

mel m (definite meli)

  1. millet

Breton

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛl/

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmɛl]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

  1. honey
Derived terms
  • aiguamel
  • lluna de mel

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin mēlum, variant of mālum (apple).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Balearics, anatomy) cheekbone
    Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3

Pronoun

mel

  1. (archaic) Contraction of me el. (in medieval Catalan, nowadays written as me'l)

Further reading

  • “mel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “mel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “mel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈméːɬ]

Noun

mēl inan

  1. second-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) your liver.

Cornish

Etymology

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

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛl]

Verb

mel

  1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mel

  1. thousand

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. flour

Declension

Further reading

  • “mel” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “mel” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dhuwal

Noun

mel

  1. eye

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛl]

Noun

mel m (plural meles)

  1. honey

Derived terms

References

  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “mel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

mēl

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel

  1. honey

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (*mel-it), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates comestible substances (compare IE *sép-it «wheat»). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr), Hittite milit and Luvic mallit-.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /mel/, [mɛɫ̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mel/, [mɛl]

Noun

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

  1. honey
  2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
  3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *melem m or f (see there for further descendants)

References

  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Malay

Etymology

From English mail.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmel/, [ˈmel]

Noun

mél (Jawi spelling ميل, plural mel-mel, informal 1st possessive melku, 2nd possessive melmu, 3rd possessive melnya)

  1. (uncommon, mostly in compounds) mail
    Synonyms: pos, surat

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mel” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • mele, melle
  • mal, male, meyle (chiefly N)
  • mæl, mæle, meal (early)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛːl/

Noun

mel (plural meles)

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

Descendants

  • English: meal
  • Scots: meal
  • Yola: meale, mele
  • Irish: béile

References

  • “mēl, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • mjøl (also Nynorsk)

Etymology

From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.

Noun

mel n (definite singular melet)

  1. flour, meal

Derived terms

  • beinmel
  • fiskemel
  • hvetemel
  • melaktig

References

  • “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mel

  1. present of mala

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛl/

Noun

mel m

  1. honey
    • [] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel []
      [] which are sweeter than honey []

Descendants

  • Galician: mel
  • Portuguese: mel

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

Noun

mel m

  1. honey

Descendants

  • Middle Welsh: mel
    • Welsh: mêl

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Compare Galician mel m, Spanish miel f.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Homophone: mele (Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: mel

Noun

mel m (plural méis or meles)

  1. honey

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mel.

Noun

mel m (plural meli)

  1. mel

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

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

Synonyms

  • (honey): mel d'avieuls

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Volapük

Etymology

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

Noun

mel (nominative plural mels)

  1. sea

Declension

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