mellilla

Diminutive from melinus (“of or pertaining to honey”), from mel (“honey”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛlˈlɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [melˈlil.la]

mellilla f (genitive mellillae); first declension

1. Used as a term of endearment, literally meaning little honey or little sweetheart.

First-declension noun.

• (little honey): melculum, mellītula

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