mandril

• Homophone: mandrill

mandril (plural mandrils)

1. Alternative spelling of mandrel.

• rimland

Probably borrowed from French mandrill (first attested in Dutch translations of Buffon), from English mandrill.

• IPA^(key): /mɑnˈdrɪl/

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• Hyphenation: man‧dril
• Rhymes: -ɪl

mandril m (plural mandrillen)

1. a mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) [from late 18th c.]

• dril

• mandril on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

mandril

1. adessive singular of mander
2. adessive singular of manner

From Spanish mandril, from French mandrin, from Provençal mandre (“axle”), from Latin mamphur, ultimately borrowed from Oscan. See also Latin mandrón.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: man‧dril

mandril m (plural mandris)

1. arbor (axis or shaft on a lathe)
2. mandrel (tool that grips or clamps something)
3. bit; drill bit (tip of a drill)
4. reamer (tool for precision holes)

Borrowed from English mandrill.

mandril m (plural mandris)

1. mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, a primate of Africa)

Borrowed from French mandrill.

mandril m (plural mandrili)

1. mandrill

Borrowed from English mandrill.

• IPA^(key): /manˈdɾil/ [mãn̪ˈd̪ɾil]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: man‧dril

mandril m (plural mandriles)

1. mandrill

• “mandril”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024