[New Latin diabētēs mellītus, literally, honey-sweet diabetes (so called because excessive glucose is excreted in the urine and the resulting sweet taste of the urine was used in diagnosis) : Medieval Latin diabētēs, diabetes; see DIABETES + Latin mellītus, honey-sweet (Latin mel, mell-, honey; see melit- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + -ītus, adjectival suffix).]