Melとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Shortening of melody.

名詞

mel (plural mels)

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

Further reading

• Mel scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

From Latin mel (“honey”). Doublet of mell.

名詞

mel (uncountable)

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

アナグラム

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

名詞

mēl m (Anglian, late Kentish)

1. alternative form of mǣl

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

語源

From 古期英語 mǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą.

発音

• IPA: /mɛ̝ːl/

名詞

mel (plural meles)

1. A time, occasion or event.
2. The occasion when a meal is consumed; mealtime.
3. A meal or feast.

派生した語

• English: meal
• Scots: meal
• Yola: meale, mele
• → Irish: béile

参照

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɛɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɛl]

名詞

mel n (genitive mellis); third declension

1. honey
   • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann):

     Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.

     Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743–744:

     colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī
     Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet.

     Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,
     and he has the rewards of discovering honey.
     (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4:

     [...] esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre.

     And his food was locusts and wild honey.

2. (figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness
   • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5:

     Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur

     But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.

3. (figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides fragmenta.0.17–18:

     cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium

     My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

同意語

• (darling, honey): mellītus
• (sweetness): dulcēdō, dulcitās, dulcitūdō, dulcor, mellinia

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Vulgar Latin: *melem m or f (see there for further descendants)

参照

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • somebody's darling: mel ac deliciae alicuius (Fam. 8. 8. 1)