Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A word: Mellifluous



"The voice is mellifluous. European. It comes from the shadows of a deep corner of the cell."

"Batman Begins" by David Goyer



Mellifluous – pleasing to the ear. Or as Wiktionary put it: Sweet and smooth; generally used of a person's voice, tone or writing style.

It comes from Latin “mellifluus” which means “flowing like honey” (“mel” means “honey” and “fluō” means “flow”).

I couldn’t help laughing when I read this. It is just a such fantastic adjective.

But will I ever learn to spell it?



Sources:
WordWeb
Wiktionary


1 comments:

Robert A Vollrath said...

Great word and I'll never learn to spell it.