"meló" meaning in Catalan

See meló in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [məˈlo] [Balearic, Central], [meˈlo] [Valencia] Audio: LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-meló.wav Forms: melons [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old Catalan melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepōnem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|ca|roa-oca|melon|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Catalan melon, {{inh+|ca|roa-oca|melon}} Inherited from Old Catalan melon, {{inh|ca|LL.|melo|mēlōnem}} Late Latin mēlōnem, {{inh|ca|la|mēlopepōnem}} Latin mēlopepōnem, {{der|ca|grc|μηλοπέπων||melon}} Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”) Head templates: {{ca-noun|m}} meló m (plural melons)
  1. melon Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-meló-ca-noun-pzhgoF7A
  2. (colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) can of worms Tags: colloquial, figuratively, masculine
    Sense id: en-meló-ca-noun-NQtY39ae Categories (other): Catalan entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Fruits Disambiguation of Catalan entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Fruits: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meló d'aigua, meló d'Alger, meló d'Ontinyent, meló de moro, meló de tot l’any, meloner, melonera

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meló d'aigua"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meló d'Alger"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meló d'Ontinyent"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meló de moro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meló de tot l’any"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meloner"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "melonera"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "roa-oca",
        "3": "melon",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Catalan melon",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "roa-oca",
        "3": "melon"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old Catalan melon",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "melo",
        "4": "mēlōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin mēlōnem",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "mēlopepōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mēlopepōnem",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μηλοπέπων",
        "4": "",
        "5": "melon"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old Catalan melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepōnem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "meló m (plural melons)",
      "name": "ca-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "me‧ló"
  ],
  "lang": "Catalan",
  "lang_code": "ca",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "melon"
      ],
      "id": "en-meló-ca-noun-pzhgoF7A",
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ca",
          "name": "Fruits",
          "orig": "ca:Fruits",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "can of worms"
      ],
      "id": "en-meló-ca-noun-NQtY39ae",
      "links": [
        [
          "Castilianism",
          "Castilianism"
        ],
        [
          "can of worms",
          "can of worms"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) can of worms"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[məˈlo]",
      "tags": [
        "Balearic",
        "Central"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[meˈlo]",
      "tags": [
        "Valencia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-meló.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meló"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Catalan countable nouns",
    "Catalan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Catalan lemmas",
    "Catalan masculine nouns",
    "Catalan nouns",
    "Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "Catalan terms derived from Late Latin",
    "Catalan terms derived from Latin",
    "Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan",
    "Catalan terms inherited from Late Latin",
    "Catalan terms inherited from Latin",
    "Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan",
    "Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ca:Fruits"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "meló d'aigua"
    },
    {
      "word": "meló d'Alger"
    },
    {
      "word": "meló d'Ontinyent"
    },
    {
      "word": "meló de moro"
    },
    {
      "word": "meló de tot l’any"
    },
    {
      "word": "meloner"
    },
    {
      "word": "melonera"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "roa-oca",
        "3": "melon",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old Catalan melon",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "roa-oca",
        "3": "melon"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old Catalan melon",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "melo",
        "4": "mēlōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin mēlōnem",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "mēlopepōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mēlopepōnem",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μηλοπέπων",
        "4": "",
        "5": "melon"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old Catalan melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepōnem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "melons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "meló m (plural melons)",
      "name": "ca-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "me‧ló"
  ],
  "lang": "Catalan",
  "lang_code": "ca",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "melon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Catalan colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "can of worms"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Castilianism",
          "Castilianism"
        ],
        [
          "can of worms",
          "can of worms"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) can of worms"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[məˈlo]",
      "tags": [
        "Balearic",
        "Central"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[meˈlo]",
      "tags": [
        "Valencia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-meló.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav/LL-Q7026_%28cat%29-Millars-mel%C3%B3.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meló"
}

Download raw JSONL data for meló meaning in Catalan (2.8kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, figurative, Castilianism",
  "path": [
    "meló"
  ],
  "section": "Catalan",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "meló",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: colloquial, figurative, Castilianism",
  "path": [
    "meló"
  ],
  "section": "Catalan",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "meló",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Catalan dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.