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mellifluus
mellifluus
Latin
Adjective
mellifluus m (feminine melliflua, neuter mellifluum); first/second declension
- honey-dropping, flowing with honey, mellifluous
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mellifluus | melliflua | mellifluum | mellifluī | mellifluae | melliflua | |
| genitive | mellifluī | mellifluae | mellifluī | mellifluōrum | mellifluārum | mellifluōrum | |
| dative | mellifluō | mellifluō | mellifluīs | ||||
| accusative | mellifluum | mellifluam | mellifluum | mellifluōs | mellifluās | melliflua | |
| ablative | mellifluō | mellifluā | mellifluō | mellifluīs | |||
| vocative | melliflue | melliflua | mellifluum | mellifluī | mellifluae | melliflua | |
Synonyms
- (mellifluous): mellifluēns
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: mellifluous
- French: melliflue
References
- mellifluus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mellifluus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.