Latin

Alternative forms

• Mel. abbreviation

Proper noun

Mela m ‎(genitive Melae); first declension

1. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Pomponius Mela (ob. circa AD 45), the earliest Roman geographer
   2. Annius Mela (cos. AD 103), a Roman senator and consul

Declension

First declension.

Descendants

• Bulgarian: Мела ‎(Mela)

References

• Mĕla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Mĕla”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 961/2.
• “Mela” on page 1,092/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Noun

mela ‎(plural melas)

1. A Hindu religious festival; loosely, a South Asian fair. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 53:

     Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.

   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:

     Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there.

Finnish

Etymology

From earlier *melä.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelɑ/
• Hyphenation: me‧la
• Rhymes: -elɑ

Noun

mela

1. paddle (oar-like implement)
2. (slang) dick (****)

Declension

Derived terms

• melaa mekkoon
• meloa

References

1. ↑ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. ISBN 951-0-27108-X.

Anagrams

• Elma

Gothic

Romanization

mēla

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌰

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mela, from melum, from Latin mālum.

Pronunciation

Noun

mela f ‎(plural mele)

1. apple (fruit)

Synonyms

• pomo

Derived terms

• mela cotogna - quince
• mela della discordia - apple of discord
• mela selvatica - crab apple

Related terms

• melagrana - pomegranate
• melata
• meleto
• melo - apple tree
• melone - melon

Anagrams

• alme
• lame
• male

Maltese

Adverb

mela

1. certainly

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mehl

Noun

mela f

1. (Kajkavian) flour

Related terms

• brašno

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish mela.

Noun

mela

1. paddle (rowing tool)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “весло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika