melius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li.us/, [ˈmɛlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.li.us/, [ˈmɛːlius]

Adjective

melius

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of melior

Adverb

melius

1. (comparative degree of bene) better

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: mezus, menzus, mellus, megnus, mellus, mègius
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: meglio
  • Sicilian: megghiu, megliu
• North Italian:
  • Ladin: miec
  • Friulian: miei
  • Venetan: mejo, megio, meo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Angevin: mieux
  • Bourguignon: meux
  • Norman: mieux
  • Franco-Provençal: mielx
  • Old French: mels, miels, mieuz
    • French: mieux
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: mills
  • Occitan: mièlhs

References

• “melius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “melius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• melius 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)
• melius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) he feels better: melius ei factum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
    
• “melius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “mĕlior, mĕlius”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 401
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti