mander

mander (third-person singular simple present manders, present participle mandering, simple past and past participle mandered)

1. Alternative form of maunder
2. Combining form of gerrymander (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 1968, Lately Thomas, The First President Johnson, page 85:

     Playing on his opponent's name, he contended that he had not been "Gerry-mandered" out of Congress, but "Henry-mandered" out, because Gustavus Henry had introduced the redistricting resolution in the legislature.

   • 1980, Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte: Tuairisc Oifigiúil, volume 322, page 821:

     this legislation was gerrymandered, or Sylvester-mandered or Barrett-mandered.

   • 2005, Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis, American Politics, page 384:

     "Texas wasn't just gerry-mandered," The New York Times said in [ a 2003 ] editorial . . . . "It was Hammer-mandered."

   • 2010, Patrick L. Cox, Michael Phillips, The House Will Come To Order:

     Howard's win, some observers noted, was particularly significant since it came in one of the "Tommy-mandered" districts drawn by the House in 2003 to guarantee a Republican win.

   • 2020, Peter Marcuse, “From Gerrymandering to Co-Mandering: Redrawing the Lines”, in Andrea Kahn, Carol J. Burns, editor, Site Matters:

     Of the many alternatives to gerrymandering, co-mandering is presented here as the potentially fairest way of drawing lines in space to regulate its use.

• “mander”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Erdman, Marden, Menard, Redman, damner, manred, mrenda, randem, red man, redman, remand

From Proto-Finnic *manta. Cognate to Finnish manner, Finnish mantere, Veps mandreh.

mander (genitive mandri, partitive mandrit)

1. Alternative form of manner.

Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

Cognate with English maunder (“to wander or walk aimlessly”).

mander

1. to dally
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Mander,

     Dally.

Inherited from Old French mander, from Latin mandāre.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.de/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: mandai, mandé, mandée, mandées, mandés, mandez

mander

1. (obsolete) to command, summon
2. (formal, transitive) to inform, to send news of

• commander

• “mander”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• damner

From Latin mandāre, present active infinitive of mandō.

mander

1. to send, dispatch

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• cumander

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈman.der/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.der/,

mander

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of mandō

• IPA^(key): /ˈmandɛr/
• (Palù) IPA^(key): /mandr/

mander

1. plural of mònn

From Latin mandāre, present active infinitive of mandō.

mander

1. to command; to order (give a command)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• comander

• French: mander