melius

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

melius

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of melior

Adverb

melius

  1. (comparative degree of bene) better

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: mezus, menzus, mellus, megnus, mellus, mègius
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: meglio
    • Sicilian: megghiu, megliu
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: mills
    • Occitan: mièlhs

References

  • melius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • melius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • melius 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)
  • melius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) he feels better: melius ei factum est
    • (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
  • melius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “mĕlior, mĕlius”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 401
  • Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
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