menda

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

menda inan

1. (botany) mint

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

menda

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

• “menda” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 61.
• Francisco Quindalé (1867), “menda”, in Diccionario gitano‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio
• “menda” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

menda

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

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

Learned borrowing from Latin menda.

menda f (plural mende)

1. (literary) mistake, error

   Synonyms: difetto, errore

2. (literary, obsolete) sin

   Synonym: peccato

• menda¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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

menda f (plural mende)

1. (obsolete) repayment, indemnity, reparation

   Synonyms: ammenda, indennità

• menda² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

menda

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

• mendum

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

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

menda f (genitive mendae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• mendicus

• mendāx
• mendum

• Sicilian: sminnari (from *exmendare)

• “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, 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.

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /mənˈda/ [mənˈda]

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /mənˈdə/ [mənˈdə]

menda

1. apheretic form of amenda

   Alternative form: mende (schwa-variety pronunciation spelling)

• minda

menda

1. ram
2. sheep

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

menda

1. wedding

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “menda”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 62, column 2

Clipping of mendoweszka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Syllabification: men‧da

menda f

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

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

Borrowed from Caló menda.

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

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)

menda

1. yours truly, muggins

   Synonym: menda lerenda

• “menda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025