melindre

• melindro, milindre, milindro

Attested since the 19th century. Borrowed from Spanish melindre.

• IPA^(key): [meˈlindɾɪ]

melindre m (plural melindres)

1. (cooking) a baked doughnut covered in thick sugar water
2. candy
3. excessive, awkward tenderness or kindness

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “melindre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “melindre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “melindre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: me‧lin‧dre

Borrowed from Spanish melindre.

melindre m (plural melindres)

1. tendency to feel offended or embarrassed; susceptibility
2. hesitation or carefulness (so as not to offend or embarrass); scrupulousness
3. tenderness, kindness
4. embarrassment, shame
5. (botany) asparagus (plant of the genus Asparagus)
6. (cooking) a type of honey cake

• melindroso
• melindrar

melindre

1. inflection of melindrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

melindre m (plural melindres)

1. tenderness and kindness in words
2. (cooking) a type of honey cake

• WordReference.com

• “melindre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024