melo

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmelo/
• Hyphenation: me‧lo
• Rhymes: -elo

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

1. badger

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.

• Elmo

From Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

melo m (plural meli)

1. apple tree, apple

• mela
• meleto
• melo selvatico

• elmo, mole

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

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

mēlō m (genitive melōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) An apple-shaped melon.
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 4.9.5:

     Nunc melones serendi rarius.

     Now melons are to be sown.

Third declension.

• mēlopepo

• 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

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

From Proto-Germanic *melwą.

melo n

1. flour

• Middle High German: mël
  • Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
  • Bavarian: Mej, Möö
  • German: Mehl
  • Luxembourgish: Miel
  • Vilamovian: maoł
  • Yiddish: מעל‎‎ (mel‎)

melo

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