mesell

From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.

mesell

1. Obsolete form of mesel in its various senses.

mesell (plural mesells)

1. Obsolete form of mesel in its various senses.

• “† mesel, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

• lemels

Inherited from Latin misellus (“wretched”).

mesell (feminine mesella, masculine plural mesells, feminine plural meselles)

1. subservient, obsequious

• “mesell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.