guisa

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognate with English wise and German Weise.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

guisa f (plural guises)

1. manner, way

• a guisa de
• guisar

• “guisa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

13th century. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), probably through Vulgar Latin.^[1] Cognate with, among others, English wise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡisa̝/

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. (now literary) manner, way
   • 1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 173:

     Boa tĩta se deue faser en esta guisa: Para hũu neto de tĩta, õça e media de agalla

     The good ink must be prepared in this wise: for preparing a neto of ink, an ounce and a half of oak gall

• aguisar
• guisadeira
• guisado
• guisar
• guiso

• “guisa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “guisa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “guisa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guisa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “guisa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wîsa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Portuguese guisa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwi.za/
• Rhymes: -iza
• Hyphenation: guì‧sa

guisa f (plural guise)

1. (literary) manner, way

• guisa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• guia
• guiza

From Late Latin (compare Old French guise, Italian guisa), from Proto-Germanic *wisa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish guisa, Italian guisa.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiza/

guisa f (oblique plural guisas, nominative singular guisa, nominative plural guisas)

1. way, manner
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:

     Ma dona m'assai' e·m prueva, / Quossi de qual guiza l'am [...].

     My lady tries to test me to find out how much I love her.

• guysa (alternative spelling)

From a Germanic root related to *wīsaz (“wise”), perhaps through Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa). Cognate with German Weise (“way, manner”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiza/

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. way, manner
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 32v:

     Vio ſaul el albergada de los philiſteos e ouo mẏedo. ⁊ demãdo c̃ſeio al nr̃o ſẽnor. E nol reſpõdio en nulla guẏſa.

     Saul saw the encampment of the Philistines and he was afraid. And he sought the counsel of Our Lord, He did not respond to him in any way.

• manera f

• Spanish: guisa

Borrowed from French guise, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Italian guisa.

• Hyphenation: gui‧sa

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. manner, habit

   Synonym: maneira

2. way

   Synonym: modo

   à guisa de ― by way of

• aguisar

• “guisa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old Spanish guisa. Likely from Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa, “way, manner”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō (“way, method, etc.”), related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Compare English wise, guise and German weise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡisa/
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: gui‧sa

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. manner, guise, way
   • 1585, Miguel de Cervantes, La Galatea 1:

     el diestro brazo levantado, a guisa de quien esperaba hacer algún recio tiro

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. habit

• “guisa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative