[go: up one dir, main page]

English

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Spanish melado, from melar (to sugar, to candy).

Noun

edit

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

  1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

edit

Galician

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /meˈlado/ [meˈla.ð̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Adjective

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)

Participle

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Further reading

edit

Portuguese

edit

Pronunciation

edit
 

  • Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Etymology 1

edit

From melar (to sweeten with honey).

Noun

edit

melado m (plural melados)

  1. molasses

Adjective

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

  1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
  2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
  3. sticky
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk

Participle

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Etymology 2

edit

From melar (to wither, dry up).

Adjective

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

  1. withered
    Synonyms: chocho, peco

Participle

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Spanish

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /meˈlado/ [meˈla.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: me‧la‧do

Noun

edit

melado m (plural melados)

  1. melado

Participle

edit

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

  1. past participle of melar

Further reading

edit