Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.
1. mella, ae, f. [mel], perh. for mellea (sc. aqua), honey-water (post-Aug.), Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 49, 3.
2. Mella or Mēla, ae, m., a river in Upper Italy, near Brescia, now Mella, Cat. 67, 33: curva legunt prope flumina Mellae, Verg. G. 4, 278.
* 3. Mella, ae, m., a Roman surname in the gens Annaea, e. g. M. Annaeus Mella, the father of Lucan.