Origin of the word mandolin
Mandolin comes from the French mandoline, from the Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a larger kind of mandolin, altered from the Latin pandura (a three-stringed lute), which is transliteration of the Greek pandura.
See also post 186 (etymology of banjo).
Mandolin comes from the French mandoline, from the Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a larger kind of mandolin, altered from the Latin pandura (a three-stringed lute), which is transliteration of the Greek pandura.
See also post 186 (etymology of banjo).
In modern Greek:
a) mandolino: mandolin [Gr: μαντολίνο; loanword]
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