Adjective: melic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more melic |
| Superlative | most melic |
Sample Sentences
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I dined at their house, and in the evening, Miss Hart gave a demonstration of her musical and melic [translating melischen] talents. [1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 315:]
Adjectives inflected like melic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song, lyric”). See: Latin Adjectives '
melicus'.