English

Proper noun

Mel

1. Short form of female given names such as Melanie, Melinda, Melissa, and Melody.
2. Short form of the male given names Melvin and Melvyn.

Anagrams

• elm
• LEM, L.E.M.
• MLE

Albanian

Noun

mel m (definite singular 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

Etymology

From Old Provençal mel, from Latin mel ‎(“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Compare French miel, Italian miele, Portuguese mel, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.

Noun

mel f ‎(plural mels)

1. honey

Cornish

Etymology

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

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”).

Noun

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

1. flour

Dhuwal

Noun

mel

1. eye

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mel, from Latin mel ‎(“honey”).

Noun

mel m ‎(plural meles)

1. honey

Gothic

Romanization

mēl

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mel ‎(“honey”).

Noun

mel

1. honey

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognates include Ancient Greek μέλι ‎(méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 ‎(miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր ‎(mełr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel/

Noun

mel n ‎(genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 2.4.20

     hoc est melle dulci dulcius

     This is honey sweeter than sweet honey.

2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
   • c. 95 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. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18

     cor meum spes mea / mel meum suavitudo cibus gaudium

     My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food delight.

Inflection

Third declension neuter i-stem.

• Note that the ablative singular melle has the alternative form melli.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mel”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)
    

Lojban

Rafsi

mel

1. rafsi of melbi.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl

Alternative forms

• mjøl (also Nynorsk)

Noun

mel n ‎(definite singular melet)

1. flour

Derived terms

• melaktig

References

• “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mel ‎(“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid ‎(“honey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl/

Noun

mel m

1. honey
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):

     […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

Descendants

• Galician: mel
• Portuguese: mel

Portuguese

mel

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mel ‎(“honey”), from Latin mel ‎(“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid ‎(“honey”). Compare Catalan mel, French miel, Italian miele, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɫ/
• Hyphenation: mel
• Rhymes: -ɛw

Noun

mel m (plural meles or méis)

1. honey

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms

• melado
• melar

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin mel ‎(“honey”).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

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

Synonyms

• (honey): mel d'avieuls

Volapük

Etymology

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

Noun

mel ‎(plural mels)

1. sea

Declension