Mela

Mela

1. a male given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014), “Mela”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Indigenous 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

• The surname Mela belongs to 145 individuals, according to August 2025 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