Where does “mandolina” come from?

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

mandolina (Spanish): mandolin

Definitions

  1. mandolin

Ancestry of “mandolina”, step by step

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

Words derived from “mandolina

Every word from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα