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},
{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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},
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"1": "xcl",
"2": "մեղր"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian մեղր (mełr)",
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{
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"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "mel",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mellium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mellum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mellī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mellibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mel",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"singular"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"plural",
"vocative"
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}
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},
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"pos": "noun",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "melina"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "melliculum"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellificium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellificō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellilla"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellārium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellātiō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "mellītulus"
}
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{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743–744",
"text": "colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī\nLiber et inventī praemia mellis habet.\nLiber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,\nand he has the rewards of discovering honey.\n(See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)"
},
{
"english": "And his food was locusts and wild honey.",
"ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4",
"text": "… esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre."
},
{
"english": "Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.",
"ref": "c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann)",
"text": "Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius."
}
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"honey"
],
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[
"honey",
"honey"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"neuter"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
{
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"name": "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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"Entry maintenance"
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{
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},
{
"_dis": "7 67 26",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Condiments",
"orig": "la:Condiments",
"parents": [
"Foods",
"Eating",
"Food and drink",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.",
"ref": "c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5",
"text": "Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur"
}
],
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"sweetness, pleasantness"
],
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[
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"sweetness"
],
[
"pleasantness",
"pleasantness"
]
],
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"(figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness"
],
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"word": "dulcēdō"
},
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"_dis1": "0 92 8",
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcitās"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 92 8",
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcitūdō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 92 8",
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 92 8",
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "mellinia"
}
],
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"figuratively",
"neuter"
]
},
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"_dis": "20 20 60",
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"name": "Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18",
"text": "cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium"
}
],
"glosses": [
"darling, sweet, honey"
],
"id": "en-mel-la-noun-baIdgFcw",
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[
"darling",
"darling"
],
[
"sweet",
"sweet"
],
[
"honey",
"honey"
]
],
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"(figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey"
],
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{
"_dis1": "29 1 71",
"sense": "darling, honey",
"word": "mellītus"
}
],
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"figuratively",
"neuter"
]
}
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"ipa": "/mel/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛɫ̪]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mel/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛl]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "mel"
}
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin neuter nouns",
"Latin neuter nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Requests for native script for Hittite terms",
"Requests for native script for Luwian terms",
"la:Condiments"
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"word": "melculum"
},
{
"word": "melinus"
},
{
"word": "mella"
},
{
"word": "mellāceum"
},
{
"word": "mellārius"
},
{
"word": "melleus"
},
{
"word": "melliculus"
},
{
"word": "mellifer"
},
{
"word": "mellifex"
},
{
"word": "mellificus"
},
{
"word": "mellifluēns"
},
{
"word": "mellifluus"
},
{
"word": "melliger"
},
{
"word": "mellīgō"
},
{
"word": "mellinia"
},
{
"word": "mellītus"
},
{
"word": "mellō"
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{
"word": "mellōsus"
}
],
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{
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"2": "𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸"
},
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"name": "cog"
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"2": "մեղր"
},
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"name": "cog"
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"1": "xlu",
"tr": "mallit-"
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"expansion": "Luwian [script needed] (mallit-)",
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]
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{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "mellis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mellium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mellum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mellī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mellibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mel",
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"accusative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "mella",
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mellibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mel",
"source": "declension",
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"singular",
"vocative"
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},
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"form": "mella",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
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"word": "melina"
},
{
"word": "melliculum"
},
{
"word": "mellificium"
},
{
"word": "mellificō"
},
{
"word": "mellilla"
},
{
"word": "mellārium"
},
{
"word": "mellātiō"
},
{
"word": "mellītulus"
}
],
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],
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{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.743–744",
"text": "colligit errantēs et in arbore claudit inānī\nLiber et inventī praemia mellis habet.\nLiber gathers the wandering [bees] and confines them in a hollow tree,\nand he has the rewards of discovering honey.\n(See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)"
},
{
"english": "And his food was locusts and wild honey.",
"ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:4",
"text": "… esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre."
},
{
"english": "Ah! This is sweeter than sweet honey.",
"ref": "c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 371, (ed. by Friedric Leo, Plauti Comoediae vol. 2, 1896, Berlin: Weidmann)",
"text": "Heia, hoc est melle dulci dulcius."
}
],
"glosses": [
"honey"
],
"links": [
[
"honey",
"honey"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"neuter"
]
},
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.",
"ref": "c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5",
"text": "Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sweetness, pleasantness"
],
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[
"sweetness",
"sweetness"
],
[
"pleasantness",
"pleasantness"
]
],
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"(figuratively) sweetness, pleasantness"
],
"tags": [
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"figuratively",
"neuter"
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},
{
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "My heart, my hope, my honey, sweetness, food, delight.",
"ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 18",
"text": "cor meum, spes mea / mel meum, suavitudo, cibus, gaudium"
}
],
"glosses": [
"darling, sweet, honey"
],
"links": [
[
"darling",
"darling"
],
[
"sweet",
"sweet"
],
[
"honey",
"honey"
]
],
"qualifier": "term of endearment",
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively, term of endearment) darling, sweet, honey"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"figuratively",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mel/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛɫ̪]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mel/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛl]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "darling, honey",
"word": "mellītus"
},
{
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcēdō"
},
{
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcitās"
},
{
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcitūdō"
},
{
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "dulcor"
},
{
"sense": "sweetness",
"word": "mellinia"
}
],
"word": "mel"
}
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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.