🇵🇹 Portuguese

mel

masculine

o mel

honey

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mel
/u ˈmɛw/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mel in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈmɛw/

How do you pronounce mel in Portuguese?

mel is pronounced /u ˈmɛw/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O mel dourado que comprei ontem é muito puro e delicioso.

The golden honey that I bought yesterday is very pure and delicious.

Este mel orgânico é o melhor que já provei na minha vida.

This organic honey is the best that I have ever tasted in my life.

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Why is it masculine?

Mel is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "mel" (honey), which was a neuter noun in Latin, but Portuguese lost the neuter gender and reassigned most neuter nouns to the masculine gender during its evolution from Vulgar Latin.

What is the Portuguese word for honey?

The Portuguese word for honey is o mel — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmiellemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmiel flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianmieleilmasculine

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