Mende
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mende"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛndi/
Etymology 1
Noun
Mende pl (plural only)
- A large West African ethnic group, speakers of the Mende language, living primarily in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Translations
Proper noun
Mende
- The language of the Mende people.
Translations
Adjective
Mende (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to the Mende people.
- Of or pertaining to the Mende language.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Mende terms
- Mende people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mende language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ethnologue entry for Mande, men
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Mende (plural Mendes)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Mende is the 34272nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 662 individuals. Mende is most common among White (79.15%) and Hispanic/Latino (10.12%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mende”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 573.
- Mende (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
Borrowed from French Mende, from Occitan.
Proper noun
Mende
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan Mende, from Latin Mimate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃d/
Proper noun
Mende ?
- Mende (a commune, the capital of Lozère department, Occitania, France).
- 2019 August 19, Florence Aubenas, “A Mende, chronique des rayons de l’Hyper U : « Avoir un gros chariot, c’était être quelqu’un »”, in Le Monde[1]:
- En Lozère, la ville de Mende, 12 000 habitants, revendique deux cathédrales : Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat et l’Hyper U, seul hypermarché du département.
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Derived terms
- mendois
Further reading
- Mende on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Latin
Alternative forms
- Mendae
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μένδη (Méndē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛn.deː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛn̪.d̪e]
Proper noun
Mendē f sg (genitive Mendēs); first declension
- A town of Chalcidice, colony of Eretria
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Mendē |
| genitive | Mendēs |
| dative | Mendae |
| accusative | Mendēn |
| ablative | Mendē |
| vocative | Mendē |
| locative | Mendēs |