Mandela

Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.

• IPA^(key): /mænˈdɛlə/

Mandela

1. A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.
   • 2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian:

     Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.

   • 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.

• Mandela effect
• Mandelian

• Adelman, Ameland, lademan, leadman

From Xhosa Mandela.

Mandela

1. a surname, Mandela

From Xhosa Mandela.

Mandela

1. a surname, Mandela

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [manˈdeː.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [man̪ˈd̪ɛː.la]

Mandēla f sg (genitive Mandēlae); first declension

1. A small village founded by the Sabines, located near the Digentia.

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Mandēlānus

• “Mandela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mandela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Mandela”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• IPA^(key): [ma.ˈndɛː.la]

Mandela

1. a surname, Mandela

• English: Mandela
• Afrikaans: Mandela
• Dutch: Mandela