The corpus record — Latin

mel

time, hour

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 208 · 132.61/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 3 · 48.94/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 656 · 16.55/10k
De Medicina 165 · 16.1/10k
Georgicon 13 · 9.19/10k
De agri cultura 14 · 8.95/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4 · 6.86/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k

Densest 12 of 98 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mel — de Vaan

mel 'time, hour', OHG mat 'moment* < *meh r lo-. Denominal to-a noun *meti- 'measurement'. The ppp, must be analogical; Sommer 1914: 610 explains it from analogy withpensus topendo 'to weigh'. Bibl: WH II: 81 f, EM 401, IEW 703f., Schrijver 1991: 139, LIV *meh r . ~+ memisy mds meto, -ere 'to reap, harvest* [v. 111; pf. messui (rare), ppp. messum] (P1.+) Derivatives: messis, -is [f.; ace. messem, abl. messe] … — [de Vaan, s.v. mel, p. 391]

2. mĕl — Lewis & Short

mĕl, mellis (

I abl. sing. melli, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20.—Gen. and dat. plur. obsol. acc. to Prisc. p. 744 P.), n. Gr. me/li, honey; me/lissa, bee; cf. mulsus, honey.

I Lit.: hoc est melli dulci dulcius, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20 (Spengel, dulce): villa abundat lacte, caseo, melle, Cic. Sen. 16, 56; cf. Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 33: roscida mella, Verg. E. 4, 30: mellis vindemia, Col. 9, 15, 1.—

II Trop., honey for sweetness, pleasantness: poëtica mella, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 44: hoc juvat et melli est, is pleasant, id. S. 2, 6, 32.—Of sweetness, pleasantness of speech: Nestoreum mel, Auct. Pan. ad Pison. 64: Homerici senis mella, Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 3.— Prov.: quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere, it seems to me as sweet as honey, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 21: mella petere in medio flumine, of a vain search, Ov. A. A. 1, 748. —As a term of endearment, darling, sweet, honey: meum mel, meum cor, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 157; 173; id. Curc. 1, 3, 8; id. Trin. 2, 1, 18: Sempronium, mel ac delicias tuas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 1.

3. Mél — Walde–Hofmann

Mél, Andler — Mélanges off. à Ch. Andler. Straßburg 1924. Mél. Boyer — Mélanges publiées en l'honneur de M. P, B. Paris 1925. Mél. Ginneken — Mélenges .. . offerts à Jacq. van G. Paris 1937. Mél. Glotz — Mélanges G. Glotz. 2 Bde. Paris 1932. Mél. Loth = Mélanges bretons et celtiques off. à M. J. L. Paris 1927. Mél. Meillet — Mélanges Meillet. Paris 1904. Mél. Mikkola = Mélanges...offerts à M, J. J. M. Helsingfors … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Mél, p. 21]

4. Mél — Walde–Hofmann

Mél, Thomas = Mélanges P. Thomas. Brügge 1930. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Mél, p. 21]

5. Mel — Walde–Hofmann

Mel, Vend es — Mélanges linguistiques offerts à M. J. Vendryes. Paris 1925. Meinersmann = B. M., Die lateinischen Wörter und Namen in den griechischen Papyri. Leipzig 1927. Meringer Beitr. = R.M., Beiträge zur Geschichte der indogerm. eklination. Wien 1891 (Sbb. Wien 125, 2). G. Meyer Alb. St{ud,) = G.M., Albanische Studien (in den Sbb. der Wiener Akad. 1883, 1884 und 1892). — Alb. W(b). = G. M., Etymologisches … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Mel, p. 21]

6. mel — Walde–Hofmann

mel, mellis n. , Honig" (eit Plaut, rom., ebenso melläceum n. „Honigsaft“ Non. p. 551 [vgl. must-, vinaceus] und meliceris, -idis f. „Honiggeschwulst* seit Cels. [aus gr. ueknpic de; vgl. noch mella, -ae f. „Honigwasser* Pit.; „syrische Bohne“ Isid. [Sofer Isid. 56], mellärius m. „Imker“ und -ium n. „Bienenstock“ seit Varro, mellàtió f. ,Honigernte* Colum. [vgl. agricolatio usw.), melleus, -a, -um „aus Honig, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mel, p. 967]

In the wild

melle Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p12
melli Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.30.8
melle Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p5
mellis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.14
melle Celsus, De Medicina 6.18.p2
mel Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 10.474

6 of 1,321 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mel (scan p. 391; entry #1044). Root candidates: *meti-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mel (scan p. 418; entry #6696).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mel (scan pp. 967-968; entry #1739). Root candidates: *meliddi-, *medhu-, *me-.

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