melo
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editmelo (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
edit- ^ “melo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Noun
editmelo (accusative singular melon, plural meloj, accusative plural melojn)
Finnish
editVerb
editmelo
- inflection of meloa:
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editItalian
editEtymology 1
editFrom Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmelo m (plural meli)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- mélo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmelo m (plural meli)
Further reading
edit- mèlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editAttested 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
editmēlō 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.
- Nunc melones serendi rarius: distent inter se semina pedibus duobus, locis subactis, vel pastinatis, maxime arenis.
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mēlō | mēlōnēs |
genitive | mēlōnis | mēlōnum |
dative | mēlōnī | mēlōnibus |
accusative | mēlōnem | mēlōnēs |
ablative | mēlōne | mēlōnibus |
vocative | mēlō | mēlōnēs |
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editDescendants
edit- Asturian: melón
- Catalan: meló
- Old French: melon
- Norman: m'lon
- Galician: melón
- Italian: melone, mellone (dialectal)
- Occitan: melon
- Piedmontese: mëlon, mlon
- Portuguese: melão
- Romagnol: mlon, mlôn, mlōn
- Sicilian: miluni
- Spanish: melón
References
edit- “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
editVerb
editmelo
- inflection of melot:
- (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of melot
- (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of melot
Old English
editNoun
editmelo n
- Alternative form of melu
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *melu.
Noun
editmelo n
Descendants
editPortuguese
editVerb
editmelo
Serbo-Croatian
editParticiple
editmelo (Cyrillic spelling мело)
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