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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Homophones: Mel, mell

Etymology 1

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

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

Etymology 2

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

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): /m?l/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan 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

Derived terms

• lluna de mel

Etymology 2

Vulgar Latin melum, variant of m?lum (“apple”).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

1. (Balearics, anatomy) cheekbone

   Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3

Pronoun

mel

1. (archaic) Contraction of me el.

Further reading

• “mel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mel” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mé??]

Noun

m?l inan

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

Cornish

Etymology

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

mel m

1. honey

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?l]

Verb

mel

1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mel

1. thousand

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?l, from Proto-Germanic *melw?, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“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

m?l

1. Romanization of ????????????

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel

1. honey

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *melli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (méli), Gothic ???????????????????? (miliþ), Old Armenian ???? (me?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [m???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [m?l]

Noun

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
   • (Can we verify this quotation?)
2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey

Declension

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

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

Synonyms

• (darling, honey): mell?tus
• (sweetness): dulc?d?, dulcit?s, dulcit?d?, 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
• mel in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mele, melle
• mal, male, meyle (chiefly N)
• mæl, mæle, meal (early)

Etymology

From Old English m?l, from Proto-Germanic *m?l?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l/, /m?l/

Noun

mel (plural meles)

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

Descendants

• English: meal
• Scots: meal
• Yola: meale, mele, mell
• ? Irish: béile

References

• “m?l, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mjøl (also Nynorsk)

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?l

Noun

mel n (definite singular melet)

1. flour, meal

Derived terms

• beinmel
• fiskemel
• hvetemel
• melaktig

References

• “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mel

1. present of mala

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

   • […] que ?on mais doce? ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

Descendants

• Galician: mel
• Portuguese: mel

Portuguese

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): /?m?w/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m??/
• Hyphenation: mel
• Rhymes: -?w

Noun

mel m (plural meles or méis)

1. honey

Quotations

For quotations using 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

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

Noun

mel (nominative plural mels)

1. sea

Declension

Westrobothnian

Verb

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

Noun

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

English

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic *b?-, *b?-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German b?ve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?b?/

Noun

bubba (plural bubbas)

1. (Southern US, Australia, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
2. A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 120:

     Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.

Derived terms

• Bubba

See also

• brother, brotha
• bro
• bubby