mellatio

From mellō (“make or collect honey”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /melˈlaː.ti.oː/, [mɛlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈlat.t͡si.o/, [melˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

mellātiō f (genitive mellātiōnis); third declension

1. A honeying, honey-gathering, taking of honey from a hive.

Third-declension noun.

• “mellatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mellatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mellatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.