melo

Noun

melo (accusative singular melon, plural meloj, accusative plural melojn)

1. badger

Verb

melo

1. Indicative present connegative form of meloa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of meloa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of meloa.

Anagrams

• Elmo

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

Noun

melo m (plural meli)

1. apple tree, apple

Anagrams

• elmo, mole

Etymology

A colloquial shortening of mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), probably with influence from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

References

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.loː/, [ˈmeː.ɫoː]

Noun

mēlō m (genitive melōnis); third declension

1. An apple-shaped melon.
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 4.9.5

     Nunc melones serendi rarius.

     Now melons are to be sown.

References

• mēlo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• melo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Verb

melo

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of melot
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of melot
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of melot
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of melot
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of melot
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of melot

Noun

melo n

1. flour

Verb

melo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of melar