menda

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /menda/ [mẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda
• Hyphenation: men‧da

Noun

menda inan

1. (botany) mint

Further reading

• “menda”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “menda”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Pronoun

menda

1. I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

References

• “menda” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 61.
• “menda” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
• “menda” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

Verb

menda

1. inflection of mendar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mẽˈⁿda]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: men‧da

Noun

menda

1. wedding

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Hyphenation: mèn‧da

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin menda.

Etymology 2

Deverbal from mendare (“to amend, correct”) +‎ -a.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• mendum

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”), same source as Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.da/, [ˈmɛn̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.da/, [ˈmɛn̪d̪ä]

Noun

menda f (genitive mendae); first declension

1. defect, blemish (on the body)
2. mistake, error, blunder

References

• “menda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “menda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• menda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• menda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Alternative forms

• minda

Noun

menda

1. ram
2. sheep

Etymology

Clipping of mendoweszka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.da/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Syllabification: men‧da

Noun

menda f

1. (dated) pubic louse
2. (derogatory) scum, scoundrel

Further reading

• menda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• menda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Borrowed from Caló menda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenda/ [ˈmẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda
• Syllabification: men‧da

Noun

menda m (plural mendas)

1. (colloquial) guy, dude, geezer
   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 109:

     —Pero qué pasa, menda, si sólo es un porrito, tronco —protesta Manolo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Pronoun

menda

1. yours truly, muggins

   Synonym: menda lerenda

Further reading

• “menda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10