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• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtla/
• Rhymes: -ɛtla

mella f (genitive singular mellu, nominative plural mellur)

1. whore, hooker

   Synonym: vændiskona

• melludólgur (“pimp”)
• mellufær

From mel (“honey”).

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmel.la/, [ˈmɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmel.la/, [ˈmɛlːä]

mella

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mel

mella f (genitive mellae); first declension

1. honey-water

First-declension noun.

• “mella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mella”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Arabic مَلَّة (malla).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl.la/

mella f (plural melliet)

1. disgust

• Syllabification: me‧lla

Deverbal from mellar.

mella f (plural mellas)

1. nick, dent, scratch
2. impression

mella

1. inflection of mellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014