mel – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of mel

Noun: mel
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mmel
Plural mméis; meles

Sample Sentences

  • A conversa era sobre parentes, os parentes estranhos, interessantes ou, por qualquer razão, notáveis de cada um. Alguém já tinha contado que um parente comia favo de mel com abelha dentro. (The conversation was about relatives, each one's weird, interesting or, for some reason, remarkable relatives. Someone had already said that a relative [of his] ate honeycomb with the bee inside.) [2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “A tia que caiu no Sena”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 61:]

Nouns inflected like mel

mel,

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mel m, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n. Cognates include Galician mel m and Spanish miel f. See: Latin Nouns 'mel', Galician Nouns 'mel', Spanish Nouns 'miel'.

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