Mendes

Borrowed from Portuguese Mendes.

Mendes

1. A municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2. A surname from Portuguese.
   • 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 June 2025:

     A year ago, the director Sam Mendes collected his "director of the year" prize at a star-studded but still otherwise obscure, untelevised gala called the Hollywood Awards, two weeks before his film "Jarhead" was even released.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mendes is the 3514^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10,162 individuals. Mendes is most common among White (56.33%), Hispanic/Latino (23.86%) and Black/African American (13.12%) individuals.

• Emdens, emends, mensed

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μένδης (Méndēs).

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

Mendēs (genitive Mendētis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. of or belonging to Mendes, a town of Lower Egypt on the delta of the Nile (in modern times called Tell El-Ruba)

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• Mendēsīcus
• Mendēsius

• “Mendes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mendes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Mendes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Mendo +‎ -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Méndez.

• Hyphenation: Men‧des

Mendes m or f by sense (invariable)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic

Mendes ?

1. a municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• IPA^(key): /ˈmendes/ [ˈmẽn̪.d̪es]
• Rhymes: -endes
• Syllabification: Men‧des

Mendes m or f by sense

1. a surname, variant of Méndez