The corpus record — Latin

mellitus

mellitus · adj

of honey, honey-

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 1 · 58.48/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 17 · 2.41/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 2.06/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mellītus — Lewis & Short

mellītus, a, um, adj.mel,

I of honey, honey-.

I Lit.: melliti favi, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 22: bellaria, id. ap. Gell. 13, 11: absorptio, Suet. Ner. 27.—

2 Sweetened with honey, honey-sweet: placenta, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 11.—

II Trop., honey-sweet, darling, lovely: mammillae, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 47: Cicero, * Cic. Att. 1, 18, 1: oculi, Cat. 47, 1: passer, id. 3, 6: verborum globuli, Petr. 1.—So in sup.: ubi ubi es mellitissime, Marc. Aur. ap. Front. Ep ad Caes. 4, 5 Mai.; cf.: mellitissimum savium, App. M. 2, 10, p. 119.— As subst.: mellītus, i, m.: mi mellite, mi marite, my honey, my darling, App. M. 5, 6, p 161.

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