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mel.

honey; sweetness; pleasant thing; darling/honey; [luna mellis => honeymoon];

3 characters1 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈmɛɫ]Classical-Latin[ˈmɛl]

  1. honey

    declension-3 · neuter

  2. sweetness, pleasantness

    declension-3 · figuratively · neuter

  3. darling, sweet, honey

    declension-3 · figuratively · neuter
Where this word comes from

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-).

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