Mende

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mende"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛndi/

Etymology 1

Noun

Mende pl (plural only)

  1. A large West African ethnic group, speakers of the Mende language, living primarily in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Translations

Proper noun

Mende

  1. The language of the Mende people.
Translations

Adjective

Mende (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Mende people.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Mende language.

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Mende.

Proper noun

Mende (plural Mendes)

  1. 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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French Mende, from Occitan.

Proper noun

Mende

  1. A commune, the capital of Lozère department, Occitania, France.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan Mende, from Latin Mimate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃d/

Proper noun

Mende ?

  1. 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • mendois

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Mendae

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μένδη (Méndē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mendē f sg (genitive Mendēs); first declension

  1. 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

References

  • Mendae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Mende”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly