melius
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.li.us/, [ˈmɛlʲiʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.li.us/, [ˈmɛːlius]
Adjective
melius
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of melior
Adverb
melius
- (comparative degree of bene) better
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: meglio
- Sicilian: megghiu, megliu
- Padanian:
- Ladin: miec
- Friulian: miei
- Venetian: mejo, megio, meo
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: mills
- Occitan: mièlhs
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Angevin: mieux
- Bourguignon: meux
- Norman: mieux
- Old French: mels, miels, mieuz
- French: mieux
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: mezus, menzus, mellus, megnus, mellus, mègius
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, 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
- (ambiguous) he feels better: melius ei factum est
- “melius”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “mĕlior, mĕlius”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 401
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti