Mel in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Mel

You can make 5 words from 'mel' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'mel'
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3 letters words from 'mel'

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MEL 5

2 letters words from 'mel'

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ME 4

Definitions and meaning of mel

mel

Etymology

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

1. (psychoacoustics) A common scale of pitches that are perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another, or one unit on that scale.

Anagrams

• EML, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin milium.

Noun

mel m (definite singular meli)

1. millet

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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): /mɛl/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mel, from Latin mel (“honey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Compare French miel, Italian miele, Portuguese mel, Romanian miere, Spanish miel.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl/

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

1. honey

Derived terms

• lluna de mel

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.

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Cornish

Etymology

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛl]

Verb

mel

1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mel

1. thousand

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”).

Noun

mel n (singular definite melet, not used in plural form)

1. flour

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Dhuwal

Noun

mel

1. eye

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mel, from Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel m (plural meles)

1. honey

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Gothic

Romanization

mēl

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel

1. honey

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *melli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [mɛɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [mɛl]

Noun

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
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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): mellītus
• (sweetness): dulcēdō, dulcitās, dulcitūdō, 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.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• melle

Etymology

From Old English mǣl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːl/

Noun

mel (plural mels)

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mjøl (also Nynorsk)

Etymology

From Old Norse mjǫl

Noun

mel n (definite singular melet)

1. flour, meal

Derived terms

• beinmel
• fiskemel
• hvetemel
• melaktig

References

• “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mel

1. present of mala

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl/

Noun

mel m

1. honey
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 278 (facsimile):

     […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

Descendants

• Galician: mel
• Portuguese: mel

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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): /ˈmɛw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɫ/
• Hyphenation: mel
• Rhymes: -ɛw

Noun

mel m (plural meles or méis)

1. honey

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms

• melado
• melar

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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

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Volapük

Etymology

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

Noun

mel (nominative plural mels)

1. sea

Declension

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Westrobothnian

Verb

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

Noun

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

Source: wiktionary.org

• honey.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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