melimelum
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.liˈmeː.lum/, [mɛlʲɪˈmeːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.liˈme.lum/, [meliˈmɛːlum]
Noun
melimēlum n (genitive melimēlī); second declension
- honey apple, sweet apple
- c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 2) VIII:
- Post hoc me docuit melimela rubere minorem ad lunam delecta. quid hoc intersit, ab ipso audieris melius.
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