Menda, mendæ, f. g & Mendum, mendi, n. g. Cic.An errour: a fault in writing.Mendum nos corrigemus.Cic.We wil mende the faulte.Mendum scripturæ rollatur. Cecinna ad Ciceron. Librariorum menda.Cic. Menda, pro vitio corporis.A blemish: a spotte: a faule.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
menda, ae, f. [v. mendum], a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.). I.Lit.: in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: nocte latent mendae, id. A. A. 1, 249.—II.Transf., a mistake, error, blunder, in writing, in books, a slip of the pen, Suet. Aug. 87: mendae istins indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.