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The corpus record — Latin

mĕlōdes

mĕlōdes · m

a pleasing, charming singer

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What it meant

mĕlōdes — Lewis & Short

mĕlōdes, is, m., = melw/|dhs,

I a pleasing, charming singer (post-class.): Proculus melodes insonare pulsibus (al. melodis) Sid. Ep. 9, 15.—Also in fem.: Mĕlōdes, a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 1157, 3.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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