melligo

Borrowed from Latin melligo.

melligo (uncountable)

1. (archaic) honeydew (sweet sticky substance found on plants)

• “melligo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From mel (“honey”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛlˈliː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [melˈliː.ɡo]

mellīgō f (genitive mellīginis); third declension

1. A honeylike juice, sucked by bees from plants; propolis, bee-glue, hive dross.

Third-declension noun.

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