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Q. #melotorno n. “love-brother” (Category: Brother)

Q. #melotorno, n. “love-brother” (Category: Brother)

A word for a close male friend whom one loves deeply appearing in notes from 1959 (NM/20), a combination of √MEL “love” with ᴹQ. otorno “brother”, appearing only in its plural form melotorni. This relationship “included no sexual or procreative desire, though naturally in Incarnates the difference of sex altered the emotion”.

References ✧ NM/20

Inflections

melotorni plural “love-brothers” ✧ NM/20

Elements

MEL “love” ✧ NM/16
ᴹ√TOR “brother”