mellatio

Latin

Etymology

From mellō (“make or collect honey”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /melˈlaː.ti.oː/, [mɛlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /melˈlat.t͡si.o/, [melˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

mellātiō f (genitive mellātiōnis); third declension

1. A honeying, honey-gathering, taking of honey from a hive.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mellātiō	mellātiōnēs
genitive	mellātiōnis	mellātiōnum
dative	mellātiōnī	mellātiōnibus
accusative	mellātiōnem	mellātiōnēs
ablative	mellātiōne	mellātiōnibus
vocative	mellātiō	mellātiōnēs

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mella
• mellāceum
• mellārium
• mellārius
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex
• mellificium
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger
• mellīgō
• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

• “mellatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mellatio", 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)
• mellatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.