mel – Latin noun declension

Noun: mel
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	mel
Plural	mella

Genitive

Singular	mellis
Plural	mellium; mellum

Dative

Singular	mellī
Plural	mellibus

Accusative

Singular	mel
Plural	mella

Ablative

Singular	melle; mellī
Plural	mellibus

Vocative

Singular	mel
Plural	mella

Sample Sentences

Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius. (Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.) [c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371 (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann)]
colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet.
Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,
and he has the rewards of discovering honey.
(See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.743–744]
[...] esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre. (And his food was locusts and wild honey.) [c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Matthew 3:4]
Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur (But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.) [c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 3.1.5]
cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium (My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.) [c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides fragmenta.0.17–18]

Nouns inflected like mel

mel,

Etymology

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-). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'μέλι', Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸'.

Verbs referencing "mel"

Asturian Nouns miel, French Nouns miel, Old Spanish Nouns miel, Spanish Nouns miel, Ancient Greek Nouns μέλι, Catalan Nouns mel, Galician Nouns mel, Old Portuguese Nouns mel, Portuguese Nouns mel, Italian Nouns miele, Irish Nouns mil, Romanian Nouns miere, English Nouns oenomel, Italian Nouns mellivora, Italian Nouns melassa, Dutch Nouns melasse, English Nouns trimellic acid, English Nouns rhodomel.