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melliloquent

melliloquent adjective: speaking sweetly or harmoniously.

Adjective

melliloquent (comparative more melliloquent, superlative most melliloquent)

  1. (archaic) Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.

Forms of melliloquent

comparativemore melliloquent
superlativemost melliloquent

Origin of melliloquent

From Latin mel, mellis (“honey”) + loquens (“speaking”), present participle of loqui (“to speak”).

Questions about melliloquent

What does melliloquent mean?
Melliloquent means speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
What part of speech is melliloquent?
Melliloquent is an adjective.

Words near melliloquent in the dictionary

  1. mellifulous
  2. mellify
  3. mellifying
  4. melligenous
  5. melligo
  6. melliloquent
  7. Mellin
  8. Mellin transform
  9. Mellin transforms
  10. Mellin-Barnes integral
  11. Mellin-Barnes integrals

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