21 February 2013

mellifluous

[muh-lif-loo-uhs]

adjective
1. sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
2. flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin mellifluus, equivalent to Latin melli- (stem of mel ) honey + -flu ( ere ) to flow + -us adj. suffix (see -ous)

Related forms
mel·lif·lu·ous·ly, adverb
mel·lif·lu·ous·ness, noun
un·mel·lif·lu·ous, adjective
un·mel·lif·lu·ous·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. melodious, musical, dulcet, harmonious.

Example sentence:

Amy Farrah Fowler: ‘Cornucopia – what a melliflous word’

Sheldon Cooper: ‘Let’s make that our word of the day’.

Amy: ‘Agreed, and we’ll use melliflous for our word for tomorrow’.

Big Bang Theory, Series 4, Episode 5.

Today’s aphorism

‘Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock’.

– Kurt Cobain

On this day

21 February 1903 – birthday of Anais Nin, French-Cuban author.