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English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?um (“umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size. The English form came perhaps via Middle French meu, a word with a single isolated attestation from the 14th century which only began to appear consistently from 1568, by which time the word was established in English.

Alternative forms

• (rare) mew

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mju/

Noun

meu (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.

   Synonyms: meon, meum, baldmoney, spignel, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Fon m??wú (“meu”).

Alternative forms

• Meu
• mehu, Mehu

Noun

meu (plural meus)

1. (historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

   Coordinate term: migan

References

Anagrams

• EMU, Ume, emu, mue, ume

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a meu
• (a) njeu

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Romanian meu.

Pronoun

meu m (feminine mea or meaea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural meali or meale)

1. my; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun

Usage notes

Always preceded by 'a'- "a meu".

Related terms

• miui
• nju

See also

• (a) tãu
• (a) lui, (a) ljei
• (a) nostru
• (a) vostru
• (a) lor

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Catalan meu, from Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. The feminine form was mia in Old Catalan, but this was extended to meva or meua by analogy with the masculine form. This happened because the -u was not understood as a masculine ending anymore, having been lost in nouns (unlike Spanish, Portuguese and Italian -o).

The weak possessive mon is also from Latin meus, meum, but as an unstressed monosyllabic form.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

meu (feminine meva or meua, masculine plural meus, feminine plural meves or meues)

1. my, mine

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, meu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

• Also used after some prepositions:

Declension

See also

• mon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?w/

Noun

meu m (plural meus)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of mèu (“meow”)

Further reading

• “meu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician and Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mew/, /?m?w/

Pronoun

meu m (masculine singular meu, masculine plural meus, feminine singular miña, feminine plural miñas)

1. (possessive) my

2. (possessive) mine

Interjection

meu

1. man; dude

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ligurian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (môlos), ????? (mólos), itself from Latin m?l?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø?/

Noun

meu m (invariable)

1. jetty, pier, mole

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meum.

Adjective

meu (feminine mia, masculine plural meus, feminine plural mies)

1. my, mine

   Synonym: mon

Descendants

• Catalan: meu

Old French

Alternative forms

• meü (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Verb

meu

1. past participle of movoir

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /mew/
• Hyphenation: meu

Pronoun

meu m (feminine minha, plural meus, feminine plural minhas)

2. First-person singular possessive pronoun.
   2. Pertaining or belonging to me; my; mine.

      O meu computador.

   4. That serves or interests me; my; mine.

      O meu ônibus.

   6. Introduced by me; my.

      O herói da minha história.

   8. Merited by me; my.

      Ainda não recebi o meu dinheiro.

   10. Related to me; my.

       Meu pai veio me visitar.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

See also

Interjection

meu!

2. (Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meu.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• me? (old orthography)

Etymology

From Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mew/

Determiner

meu m or n (feminine singular mea, masculine plural mei, feminine and neuter plural mele)

1. (genitive form of eu used as a possessive determiner) my

Declension

Pronoun

meu m or n

1. (preceded by "al") mine

See also

• lor
• nostru
• s?u, lui
• t?u
• vostru

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meu/

Pronoun

meu (plural meos, feminine mea, feminine plural meas)

1. my, mine

Related terms

• tuu/tou/tuo
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

Zou

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Khumi Chin mibawi and Chinese ? (m?o).

Noun

meu

1. cat (Felis catus)

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Homophones: Mel, mell

Etymology 1

Shortening of melody.

Noun

mel (plural mels)

1. (psychoacoustics) A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Etymology 2

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel (uncountable)

1. Honey, when used as an ingredient in cosmetic products.

Anagrams

• EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, MLE, elm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin milium.

Noun

mel m (definite singular meli)

1. millet

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): /m?l/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mel f (plural mels)

1. honey

Derived terms

• lluna de mel

Etymology 2

Vulgar Latin melum, variant of m?lum (“apple”).

Noun

mel m (plural mels)

1. (Balearics, anatomy) cheekbone

   Synonym: pòmul

Etymology 3

Pronoun

mel

1. (archaic) Contraction of me el.

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.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mé??]

Noun

m?l inan

1. second-person singular possessive singular of ?lli; (it is) your liver.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mel, 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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?l]

Verb

mel

1. second-person singular imperative of mlít

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mel

1. thousand

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?l, from Proto-Germanic *melw?, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, rub, break up”).

Noun

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

1. flour

Dhuwal

Noun

mel

1. eye

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

mel m (plural meles)

1. honey

Gothic

Romanization

m?l

1. Romanization of ????????????

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mel (“honey”).

Noun

mel

1. honey

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *melli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (méli), Gothic ???????????????????? (miliþ), Old Armenian ???? (me?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [m???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mel/, [m?l]

Noun

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
   • (Can we verify this quotation?)
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): mell?tus
• (sweetness): dulc?d?, dulcit?s, dulcit?d?, 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.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mele, melle
• mal, male, meyle (chiefly N)
• mæl, mæle, meal (early)

Etymology

From Old English m?l, from Proto-Germanic *m?l?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l/, /m?l/

Noun

mel (plural meles)

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
• Yola: meale, mele, mell
• ? Irish: béile

References

• “m?l, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mjøl (also Nynorsk)

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?l

Noun

mel n (definite singular melet)

1. flour, meal

Derived terms

• beinmel
• fiskemel
• hvetemel
• melaktig

References

• “mel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mel

1. present of mala

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Noun

mel m

1. honey

   • […] que ?on mais doce? ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

Descendants

• Galician: mel
• Portuguese: mel

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): /?m?w/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m??/
• Hyphenation: mel
• Rhymes: -?w

Noun

mel m (plural meles or méis)

1. honey

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mel.

Derived terms

• melado
• melar

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

Volapük

Etymology

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

Noun

mel (nominative plural mels)

1. sea

Declension

Westrobothnian

Verb

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel

Noun

mel

1. Alternative spelling of meel