adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to Melanesia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Melanesian
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: M EH2 L AH0 N IY1 ZH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A Melanesian person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to Melanesia or its people or culture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh2- Proto-Indo-European *mélh2ns Proto-Hellenic *mélās Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas)lbor. Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos)lbor. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French Mélanésiebor. English Melanesia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Melanesian From Melanesia + -an.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: melanesi — referring to Melanesia
- Finnish: melanesialainen — referring to Melanesia
- French: mélanésien — referring to Melanesia
- Irish: Meilinéiseach — referring to Melanesia
- Italian: melanesiano — referring to Melanesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: melanesisk — referring to Melanesia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: melanesisk — referring to Melanesia
- Polish: melanezyjski — referring to Melanesia
- Portuguese: melanésio — referring to Melanesia
- Russian: меланези́йский (melanɛzíjskij) — referring to Melanesia
- Spanish: melanesio — referring to Melanesia
- Swedish: melanesisk — referring to Melanesia
- Tagalog: Timpuluanin — referring to Melanesia
- Catalan: melanesi — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Catalan: melanèsia — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Esperanto: melaneziano — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Esperanto: melanezianino — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Finnish: melanesialainen — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- French: Mélanésien — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- French: Mélanésienne — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- German: Melanesier — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- German: Melanesierin — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Irish: Meilinéiseach — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Italian: melanesiano — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Italian: melanesiana — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Kazakh: меланезиялық (melaneziälyq) — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Polish: Melanezyjczyk — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Polish: Melanezyjka — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Russian: меланези́ец (melanɛzíjec) — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Russian: меланези́йка (melanɛzíjka) — person living in or coming from Melanesia
- Tagalog: Timpuluanin — person living in or coming from Melanesia