Mela

Mela

1. a male given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014) “Mela”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples

Variant of Melanen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelɑ/, [ˈme̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Me‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): Me‧la

Mela

1. a Finnish surname

• Mela is the 4820^th (tied with 25 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 151 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Carmela: Carme +‎ -ela.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlɐ]

Mela f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Carme

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “Mela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “Mela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Mel. (abbreviation)

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

Mela m sg (genitive Melae); first declension

1. A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Pomponius Mela (ob. circa AD 45), the earliest Roman geographer
   2. Annius Mela (cos. AD 103), a Roman senator and consul

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Bulgarian: Мела (Mela)

• “Mĕla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mĕla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 961/2.
• “Mela” on page 1,092/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Pomponius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Annius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la