melado
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).
Noun
editmelado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editGalician
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)
- honey-sweet (very sweet)
- honey-colored (having the color of honey)
Participle
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)
- past participle of melar
Further reading
edit- “melado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: me‧la‧do
Etymology 1
editFrom melar (“to sweeten with honey”).
Noun
editmelado m (plural melados)
Adjective
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)
- honey-sweet (very sweet)
- honey-colored (having the color of honey)
- sticky
- (Brazil, colloquial) drunk
Participle
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)
- past participle of melar
Etymology 2
editFrom melar (“to wither, dry up”).
Adjective
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)
Participle
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)
- past participle of melar
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmelado m (plural melados)
Participle
editmelado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)
- past participle of melar
Further reading
edit- “melado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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