Mende

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛndi/
• Rhymes: -ɛndi

Mende pl (plural only)

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

Mende

1. The language of the Mende people.

Mende (not comparable)

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mende (Sierra Leone) terms
• Mende people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mende language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Mande, men ⁠

Borrowed from German Mende.

Mende (plural Mendes)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mende is the 34272^nd 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.

• 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

Borrowed from French Mende, from Occitan.

Mende

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

• Emden, Meden, emend

Borrowed from Occitan Mende, from Latin Mimate.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃d/

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)

• mendois

• Mende on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• Mendae

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μένδη (Méndē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.de]

Mendē f sg (genitive Mendēs); first declension

1. A town of Chalcidice, colony of Eretria

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), with locative, singular only.

• “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