melilotos

From Ancient Greek μελίλωτος (melílōtos, “melilot”), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + λωτός (lōtós, “lotus”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.lɪˈɫoː.tɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.liˈlɔː.t̪os]

melilōtos f (genitive melilōtī); second declension

1. melilot, Melilotus sp.

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

• → Translingual: Melilotus

• “melilotos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melilotos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.