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melle

melle is a Latin form of mel, meaning “honey”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.183: … candelabra; non, inquam, iam quaero unde haec habueris, sed quo tantum tibi opus fuerit, id quaero. omitto de melle, sed tantumne Melitensium, quasi etiam amicorum uxores, tantum lectorum, quasi omnium istorum villas ornaturu …

Ovid, Amores 1.12.10: Melle sub infami Corsica misit apis.

All forms of mel (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.