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Etymology
Inherited from Latin mandra (“flock”). Compare the Italian expression darsi alla mandra (“to give oneself to idleness”, literally “to give oneself to the herd”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandra f (plural mandres)
- laziness
- Synonyms: peresa, accídia
2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 8, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Ella no es movia del seu matalàs de molsa. Mirava el cel i estirava els braços, amb mandra.- She didn't move from her mossy mattress. She looked at the sky, lazily streching her arms.
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Noun
mandra f (plural mandre)
- (uncommon) Alternative form of mandria (“herd”)
Further reading
- mandra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- mandra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Javanese
Romanization
mandra
- Romanization of ꦩꦤ꧀ꦢꦿ
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosed space; barn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandra f (genitive mandrae); first declension
- (poetic) a stall or pen for cattle
- a column or train of pack animals
- an enclosure used in the board game Ludus latrunculorum
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mandra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mandra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Leschber, Corinna (2011) “Zeitliche Tiefe etymologischer Bezüge [Time depth in etymological research]”, in Linguistique Balkanique (in German), volume 50, numbers 2–3, Sofia, pages 75–78
- “mandra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mandra, variant of mandria, from Latin mandra, from Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandra f (plural mnadar, paucal mandriet, diminutive mnajdra)
- an outdoors pen, traditionally in the courtyard of a farmhouse, used mostly for small livestock such as chickens, goats, etc.
- a plot of ground at the back of a farmhouse
- mess, disorder
See also
Occitan
Etymology
Probably from Provençal mandrat/mandre.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mandra f (plural mandras)
- fox
Dialectal variants
References