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Where does “melado” come from?

melado (English) comes from Spanish melado, from Spanish melar, from Spanish miel, from Old Spanish miel, from Vulgar Latin *melem, from Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European mélit — honey.

melado (English): a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as...

Definitions

  1. a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as...

Ancestry of “melado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishmeladomelado
2Spanishmelarhoney sweet; to fill with :honey; to boil for a...
3Spanishmielhoney
4Old Spanishmielhoney
5Vulgar Latin*melem—
6Latinmelhoney; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney
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