Mela

Variant of Melanen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelɑ/,
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Me‧la

Mela

1. a Finnish surname

• Mela is the 4820^th (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.

From Carmela: Carme +‎ -ela.

• IPA^(key):

Mela f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Carme

• “Mela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “Mela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

• Mel. (abbreviation)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.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