melassa

From mel +‎ -assa. Compare French mélasse, Spanish melaza.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈla.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈla.sa]

melassa f (plural melasses)

1. molasses

• “melassa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “melassa”, 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

melassa

1. inessive singular of mela

• melasso

From French mélasse, from Spanish melaza, from Late Latin mellāceus (“honeylike, honey-sweet”), from Latin mel (“honey”).

• IPA^(key): /meˈlas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: me‧làs‧sa

melassa f (plural melasse)

1. molasses, treacle

• melassare
• melassigeno

• melassatrice