The corpus record — Latin

mella1

mella1 · f

honey-water

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Where it lives

Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. mella — Lewis & Short

mella, ae, f.mel, perh. for mellea (sc. aqua),

I honey-water (post-Aug.), Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 49, 3.

2. Mella — Lewis & Short

Mella or Mēla, ae, m.,

I a river in Upper Italy, near Brescia, now Mella, Cat. 67, 33: curva legunt prope flumina Mellae, Verg. G. 4, 278.

3. Mella — Lewis & Short

Mella, ae, m.,

I a Roman surname in the gens Annaea, e. g. M. Annaeus Mella, the father of Lucan.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mella (scan p. 419; entry #6706).

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