Mela

From Carmela: Carme +‎ -ela.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlɐ]

Mela f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Carme

• “Mela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “Mela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

• Mel. (abbreviation)

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.la/, [ˈmɛɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.la/, [ˈmɛːlä]

Mela m sg (genitive Melae); first declension

1. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Pomponius Mela (ob. circa AD 45), the earliest Roman geographer
   2. Annius Mela (cos. AD 103), a Roman senator and consul

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Bulgarian: Мела (Mela)

• “Mĕla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mĕla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 961/2
• “Mela” on page 1,092/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Pomponius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Annius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la