Melae

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.ɫae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.le]

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Melae f pl (genitive Melārum); first declension

1. a town in Samnium mentioned by Livy.
2. a town near Locri, Bruttium

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Melae

1. genitive/dative singular of Mela

• “Melae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Melae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly