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mel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mel"

English

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Etymology 1

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Shortening of melody.

Noun

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mel (plural mels)

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

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Etymology 2

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From Latin mel (“honey”). Doublet of mell.

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mel (uncountable)

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

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

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mel m (definite meli)

  1. millet

Breton

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Etymology

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

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mel m

  1. honey

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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

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mel f (plural mels)

  1. honey
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Etymology 2

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

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mel m (plural mels)

  1. (Balearic, anatomy) cheekbone
    Synonym: pòmul

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Pronoun

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mel

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

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Classical Nahuatl

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mēl inan

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

Cornish

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Etymology

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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

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mel m

  1. honey

Mutation

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  Mutation of mel  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mel vel unchanged unchanged fel vel

Czech

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Verb

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mel

  1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

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mel

  1. thousand

Danish

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Etymology

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

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

  1. flour

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Declension of mel
neuter
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative mel melet
genitive mels melets

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Dhuwal

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mel

  1. eye

Galician

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Etymology

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

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mel m (plural meles)

  1. honey

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Gothic

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Romanization

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mēl

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot

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Etymology

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

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mel

  1. honey

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  • 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

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Etymology

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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-).[1]

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mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

  1. honey
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743–744:
      colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
      Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet.
      Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,
      and he has the rewards of discovering honey.
      (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4:
      [...] esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre.
      And his food was locusts and wild honey.
    • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann):
      Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.
      Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.
  2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
    • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5:
      Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
      But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.
  3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18:
      cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium
      My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mel mella
Genitive mellis mellium
mellum
Dative mellī mellibus
Accusative mel mella
Ablative melle
mellī 		mellibus
Vocative mel mella

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Descendants

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

References

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  • “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.
    • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mel”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370

Malay

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Etymology

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From English mail.

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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

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Middle English

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Etymology

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

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mel (plural meles)

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Danish mel, from Old Norse mjǫl.

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mel n (definite singular melet)

  1. flour, meal

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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mel

  1. present of mala

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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

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mel m (plural mels)

  1. honey

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Old Welsh

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Etymology

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

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mel m

  1. honey

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Portuguese

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 mel on Portuguese Wikipedia
 
mel

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

Compare Galician mel m, Spanish miel f.

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mel m (plural méis or meles)

  1. honey
    • 2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “A tia que caiu no Sena”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 61:
      A conversa era sobre parentes, os parentes estranhos, interessantes ou, por qualquer razão, notáveis de cada um. Alguém já tinha contado que um parente comia favo de mel com abelha dentro.
      The conversation was about relatives, each one's weird, interesting or, for some reason, remarkable relatives. Someone had already said that a relative [of his] ate honeycomb with the bee inside.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English mel.

Noun

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mel m (plural meli)

  1. mel

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Declension of mel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mel melul (niște) meli melii
genitive/dative (unui) mel melului (unor) meli melilor
vocative melule melilor

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Etymology

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

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mel m (plural mels)

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

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

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mel (nominative plural mels)

  1. sea

Declension

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declension of mel
singular plural
nominative mel mels
genitive mela melas
dative mele meles
accusative meli melis
vocative 1 o mel! o mels!
predicative 2 melu melus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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