melado

English

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Alternative forms

• melada

Etymology

From Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Noun

melado (countable and uncountable, plural melados or meladoes)

1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• AMOLED, loamed

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlado/ [meˈla.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

1. past participle of melar

Further reading

• “melado”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈla.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈla.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈla.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈla.du/ [mɨˈla.ðu]

• Hyphenation: me‧la‧do

Etymology 1

From melar (“to sweeten with honey”).

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

1. molasses

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

1. honey-sweet (very sweet)
2. honey-colored (having the color of honey)
3. sticky
4. (Brazil, colloquial) drunk

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

1. past participle of melar

Etymology 2

From melar (“to wither, dry up”).

Adjective

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas, comparable, comparative mais melado, superlative o mais melado or meladíssimo, diminutive meladinho, augmentative meladão)

1. withered

   Synonyms: chocho, peco

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

1. past participle of melar

Further reading

• “melado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “melado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlado/ [meˈla.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: me‧la‧do

Noun

melado m (plural melados)

1. melado

Participle

melado (feminine melada, masculine plural melados, feminine plural meladas)

1. past participle of melar

Further reading

• “melado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024