melca

Inherited from Vulgar Latin melica, from Latin medica (“Median”). Compare Italian meliga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɛl.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmel.ka]

melca f (plural melques)

1. sorghum

   Synonym: sorgo

• melga

• “melca”, 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
• “melca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “melca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “melca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.^[1] Compare English milk.

melca f (genitive melcae); first declension

1. some type of food made with soured milk, similar to Greek oxygala

First-declension noun.

• Ancient Greek: μέλκα (mélka)

• “melca” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• melca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.