meló

Inherited from Old Catalan melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepōnem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈlo]

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• Hyphenation: me‧ló

meló m (plural melons)

1. melon
2. (colloquial, figurative, Castilianism) can of worms

• “meló”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “meló”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “meló” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛloː]
• Hyphenation: me‧ló
• Rhymes: -loː

meló (plural melók)

1. (colloquial) work

   Synonyms: munka, (task) feladat

• meló in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /meˈlo/ [meˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: me‧ló

meló

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of melar