mellificium

Latin

Etymology

From mellificus (“fit for making honey; honey-making”), from mel (“honey”) + faciō (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mel.liˈfi.ki.um/, [mɛlːʲɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mel.liˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [melːiˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

mellificium n (genitive mellificiī or mellificī); second declension

1. The making of honey.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mellificium	mellificia
genitive	mellificiī mellificī1	mellificiōrum
dative	mellificiō	mellificiīs
accusative	mellificium	mellificia
ablative	mellificiō	mellificiīs
vocative	mellificium	mellificia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• mel
• melculum
• melina
• melinus
• mella
• mellāceum
• mellārium
• mellārius
• mellātiō
• melleus
• melliculum
• melliculus
• mellifer
• mellifex
• mellificō
• mellificus
• mellifluēns
• mellifluus
• melliger
• mellīgō
• mellilla
• mellinia
• mellītulus
• mellītus
• mellō
• mellōsus

References

• “mellificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mellificium", 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)
• mellificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.