# melo
## English
### Etymology

Perhaps after French mélo.

### Noun

melo (countable and uncountable, plural melos)
* (informal, British) Abbreviation of melodrama.
** 1889 December 24, Ernest Dowson, “To Arthur Moore”, in edited by Desmond Flower and Henry Maas, The Letters of Ernest Dowson, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, page 121:Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old.
** 1920 April 23, Aldous Huxley, “To Arnold Bennett”, in edited by Grover Smith, Letters of Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1969, page 183:One is a melodrama about Bolshevism—the break up of the Armies in 1917—what one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo.
** 1923, Terry Ramsaye, “The Romantic History of the Motion Picture”, in Photoplay, page 41:She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company. Meanwhile Mary listened and learned of the world about her. She heard a very great deal of the chesty gossip of melo actors discussing “when I was with Belasco,” and came to learn that on this wonderful Broadway Belasco was master.
** 1971 August 26, Radio Times:True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)
** 1973 December 20, Radio Times:The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.
** 2012, Bill Thomas, Upstage, Downstage, Cross: An Actor Emerges in Early English 20th Century Theatre, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 155:“And a melo?” Miss Collins asked. Richard looked to Miss Joyce for help. “A melodrama! You don’t know?” A somewhat astonished Miss Joyce commented. “The only plays melo companies perform are melodramas. There are several of them touring out there,” broadly gesturing with her arm. “They’re known as ‘blood and thunders.’ A good melo actor can work all year round. […] Melos are a good place for a young actor to start,” she added.

### References

* ↑ “melo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* mole, elmo, molé, Elmo, moel, Mole, Lomé

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin meles.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmelo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: me‧lo
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

melo (accusative singular melon, plural meloj, accusative plural melojn)
* badger

## Finnish
### Verb

melo
* inflection of meloa:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* Elmo

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.lo/
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: mé‧lo

#### Noun

melo m (plural meli)
* apple tree, apple

##### Related terms

* mela
* meleto
* melo selvatico

#### Further reading

* mélo$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɛlo
* Hyphenation: mè‧lo

#### Noun

melo m (plural meli)
* (literary, obsolete) song; poetry

#### Further reading

* mèlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Molè, elmo, mole

## Latin
### Etymology

Attested since about late 4th century CE, since Palladius and the author(s) of Historia Augusta. Shortening of mēlopepō (q.v.), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

### Noun

mēlō m (genitive mēlōnis); third declension (Late Latin)
* melon, muskmelon
** c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus agriculturae 4.9.5:Nunc melones serendi rarius: distent inter se semina pedibus duobus, locis subactis, vel pastinatis, maxime arenis.Now melons are to be sown more rarely: let the seeds be two feet distant, in places well wrought and pastinated, especially in sandy soils.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* mālum
* mālus
* mēlopepō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: melón
* Catalan: meló
* Old French: melon
** → Middle Dutch: melone
*** Afrikaans: meloen
*** Dutch: meloen
** → Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
*** → English: melon, mellon
**** → Japanese: メロン
**** → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
**** → Welsh: melon
** French: melon
** Norman: m'lon
* Galician: melón
* Italian: melone, mellone (dialectal)
** → German: Melone
** → Hunsrik: Mëlon
* Occitan: melon
* Piedmontese: mëlon, mlon
* Portuguese: melão
* Romagnol: mlon, mlôn, mlōn
* Sicilian: miluni
* Spanish: melón

### References

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

## Latvian
### Verb

melo
* inflection of melot:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of melot
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of melot

## Old English
### Noun

melo n
* Alternative form of melu

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *melu.

### Noun

melo n
* flour

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: mël
** Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
** Bavarian: Mej, Möö
** Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Meel
    Luxembourgish: Miel
** German: Mehl
** Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Mehl
** Vilamovian: maoł
** Yiddish: מעל (mel)

## Portuguese
### Verb

melo
* first-person singular present indicative of melar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Participle

melo (Cyrillic spelling мело)
* neuter singular active past participle of mesti