melic

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlɪk/

From Latin melicus, from Koine Greek μελικός (melikós), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “song, lyric”).

melic (comparative more melic, superlative most melic)

1. Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. [from 17th c.]
   • 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 315:

     I dined at their house, and in the evening, Miss Hart gave a demonstration of her musical and melic [translating melischen] talents.

• melody
• melos

From translingual Melica (genus name), probably from Italian melica, meliga (“sorghum, millet”).

• melick

melic (plural melics)

1. Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from northern temperate regions. [from 18th c.]

• → Welsh: meligwellt (“melic”)

• clime

Inherited from Latin umbilīcus, with rebracketing of l'omelic → lo melic.^[1] Doublet of llombrígol.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈlik]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈlik]

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• Rhymes: -ik

melic m (plural melics)

1. navel

   Synonym: llombrígol

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 13, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Sovint em girava i una catifa de caps s'acumulava a l'alçada del meu melic.

     Often I turned around and a carpet of heads gathered at the height of my navel.

• “melic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “melic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.