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melocoton

/ˌmɛləkəˈtɒn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
me-lo-co-ton
IPA
/ˌmɛləkəˈtɒn/
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of yellow-fleshed peach having red skin

Archaic

noun

A quince.

Archaic

Etymology

Etymology tree Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.? Latin mālum Latin cotōnium ▲ Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion)calq. Latin mālum cotōniumlbor. ▲ Spanish melóninflu. Spanish melocotónbor. English melocoton Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin mālum cotōnium (“quince, or quince tree”, literally “apple of Cydonia”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: mālum cotōnium

Usage

Inflected Forms

melocotons (plural) malacatoon (alternative) malacotoon (alternative) malacotune (alternative) malakatoon (alternative) melocotoon (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce melocoton?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌmɛləkəˈtɒn/.
What does melocoton mean?
A kind of yellow-fleshed peach having red skin
Where does melocoton come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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