mellitus

Latin

From mel (“honey”) +‎ -ītus.

mellītus (feminine mellīta, neuter mellītum); first/second-declension adjective

of or pertaining to honey
Synonyms: melinus, mellārius, melleus, mellōsus
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.11:
  Neque non de secundis quoque mensis, cuiusmodi esse eas oporteat, praecipit. His enim verbis utitur: "Bellaria" inquit "ea maxime sunt mellita, quae mellita non sunt; πέμμασιν enim cum πέψει societas infida".
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
sweetened with honey, honey-sweet, honeyed
Synonyms: melleus, melliculus, mellītulus
- 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles IX.9–11:
  Quid quaeris? Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad caelum fertis rumore secundo,
  Utque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso,
  Pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis.
  What do you want from me? I live, I am my own master, I left behind the self same things you by common approval so eagerly covet, like the fugitive I have no right to the priest's blessed cake, but bread will quench my hunger over any honeyed delicacy.
(figuratively) as sweet as honey; honey-sweet, darling, lovely

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	mellītus	mellīta	mellītum	mellītī	mellītae	mellīta
genitive	mellītī	mellītae	mellītī	mellītōrum	mellītārum	mellītōrum
dative	mellītō	mellītae	mellītō	mellītīs
accusative	mellītum	mellītam	mellītum	mellītōs	mellītās	mellīta
ablative	mellītō	mellītā	mellītō	mellītīs
vocative	mellīte	mellīta	mellītum	mellītī	mellītae	mellīta

mellītus m (genitive mellītī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

“mellitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mellitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“mellitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid from Kevin Cawley at the University of Notre Dame Archives.