melodie

The word 'melodie' is a direct borrowing from the French 'mélodie', which itself originates from the Late Latin 'melodia'. This Latin term was adopted from the Greek 'melōidía', meaning 'singing, chanting' or a 'song for the voice'. The Greek word is a compound of 'mélos', meaning 'song, tune, limb, musical phrase', and 'aoidḗ', meaning 'song, ode, singing'. Thus, the core concept has always been centered on a pleasing sequence of musical sounds, a meaning preserved perfectly in its modern English usage as a simple, memorable tune.

This word is a simplex loanword from French. It is not productively segmented using English morphemes.