Mela
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mela"
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Variant of Melanen.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mela
- a Finnish surname
Declension edit
Inflection of Mela (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mela | Melat | ||
genitive | Melan | Melojen | ||
partitive | Melaa | Meloja | ||
illative | Melaan | Meloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mela | Melat | ||
accusative | nom. | Mela | Melat | |
gen. | Melan | |||
genitive | Melan | Melojen Melainrare | ||
partitive | Melaa | Meloja | ||
inessive | Melassa | Meloissa | ||
elative | Melasta | Meloista | ||
illative | Melaan | Meloihin | ||
adessive | Melalla | Meloilla | ||
ablative | Melalta | Meloilta | ||
allative | Melalle | Meloille | ||
essive | Melana | Meloina | ||
translative | Melaksi | Meloiksi | ||
abessive | Melatta | Meloitta | ||
instructive | — | Meloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Mela is the 4820th (tied with 25 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 151 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mela f
- a diminutive of the female given name Carme
References edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.la/, [ˈmɛɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.la/, [ˈmɛːlä]
Proper noun edit
Mela m sg (genitive Melae); first declension
- A Roman masculine cognomen — famously held by:
- Pomponius Mela (ob. circa AD 45), the earliest Roman geographer
- Annius Mela (cos. AD 103), a Roman senator and consul
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Mela |
Genitive | Melae |
Dative | Melae |
Accusative | Melam |
Ablative | Melā |
Vocative | Mela |
Descendants edit
- Bulgarian: Мела (Mela)
References edit
- “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)
Further reading edit
- Pomponius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
- Annius Mela on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la