mellior
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛl.li.ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛl.li.or]
Verb
mellior (present infinitive mellīrī, perfect active mellītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
- To be sweetened with honey
- To be covered, smeared or slapsticked in honey
- (figurative, term of endearment) To be a sweetheart, docile, kind, a sugarplum
Conjugation
Conjugation of mellior (fourth conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | mellior | mellīris, mellīre |
mellītur | mellīmur | mellīminī | melliuntur | ||||||
| imperfect | melliēbar | melliēbāris, melliēbāre |
melliēbātur | melliēbāmur | melliēbāminī | melliēbantur | |||||||
| future | melliar | melliēris, melliēre |
melliētur | melliēmur | melliēminī | mellientur | |||||||
| perfect | mellītus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mellītus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | mellītus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | melliar | melliāris, melliāre |
melliātur | melliāmur | melliāminī | melliantur | ||||||
| imperfect | mellīrer | mellīrēris, mellīrēre |
mellīrētur | mellīrēmur | mellīrēminī | mellīrentur | |||||||
| perfect | mellītus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mellītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | mellīre | — | — | mellīminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | mellītor | mellītor | — | — | melliuntor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | mellīrī | — | melliēns | — | |||||||||
| future | mellītūrum esse | — | mellītūrus | melliendus, melliundus | |||||||||
| perfect | mellītum esse | — | mellītus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | mellītum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | mellītūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| melliendī | melliendō | melliendum | melliendō | mellītum | mellītū | ||||||||
Further reading
- “mellior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mellitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.