mellificium

From mellificus (“fit for making honey; honey-making”), from mel (“honey”) + faciō (“do, make”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛl.lɪˈfɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mel.liˈfiː.t͡ʃi.um]

mellificium n (genitive mellificiī or mellificī); second declension

1. The making of honey.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “mellificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mellificium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mellificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.