Meaning of mel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. honey
   declension-3, neuter
2. sweetness, pleasantness
   declension-3, figuratively, neuter
3. darling, sweet, honey
   declension-3, figuratively, neuter

Equivalents

Examples

“Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius.”

Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.

“colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī Liber et inventī praemia mellis habet. Liber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree, and he has the rewards of discovering honey. (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)”

“… esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre.”

And his food was locusts and wild honey.

“Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur”

But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.

“cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium”

My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.

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