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”). Doublet of mell.

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

mel m (definite meli)

1. common 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, Valencia) [ˈmɛl]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

1. honey

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

1. (Balearic, 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, 2025
• “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

Derived terms

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”). Related to male (“grind, crush”), mølle (“mill”) (via Latin), and to muld (“soil”).

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mel”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mel”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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 *mel-it (“honey”), with the athematic suffix *-it that indicates comestible substances (compare Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰ-it (“barley”) or Proto-Indo-European *sép-it (“wheat”)). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr), Hittite [script needed] (milit), Luwian [script needed] (mallit-).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmel/, [ˈmɛɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmel/, [ˈmɛl]

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)

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 Northern)
• mæl, mæle, meal (Early Middle English)

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 (plural mels)

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

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