Where does “Mandoline” come from?

Mandoline (German) comes from French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, from Italian mandola, from Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα — pandura, a three-stringed lute.

Mandoline (German): mandolin

Definitions

  1. mandolin

Ancestry of “Mandoline”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmandolinemandolin; vegetable slicer, mandoline
2Italianmandolinomandolin
3Italianmandolamandola
4Latinpanduraa pandore
5Ancient Greekπανδοῦραpandura, a three-stringed lute

Words derived from “Mandoline”

Every word from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα →