manso

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Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mānsus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural manses)

  1. Alternative form of mans (“tame”)

Noun

manso m (plural mansos)

  1. (colloquial) guy, chap, fellow
    Synonym: paio
  2. (colloquial) boyfriend
    Synonym: amant

Further reading

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish manso (“tame”).

Adjective

manso

  1. meek; tame

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese manso, from Vulgar Latin *mansus, from Latin mansuetus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

  1. (of animals) tame (mild and well-behaved)
    Antonym: bravo
  2. (of plants) grafted; cultured
    Antonym: bravo
  3. (of people) meek; gentle
    Antonym: bravo
  4. (of nature and natural phenomena) mild; gentle

Derived terms

References

  • “manso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “manso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “manso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “manso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “manso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈman.so/
  • Rhymes: -anso
  • Hyphenation: màn‧so

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mānsus, back-formed from Latin mānsuētus.

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansi, feminine plural manse)

  1. (literary, regional) meek, tame
    Synonyms: docile, mansueto
    • early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Quali si stanno ruminando manse
      le capre, state rapide e proterve
      sovra le cime avante che sien pranse […]
      Like the meek ruminating goats, having been swift and haughty upon the mountaintops before being sated
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mānsum (“residence”), from Latin mānsus, perfect passive participle of maneō (“to stay, remain”).

Noun

manso m (plural mansi)

  1. (historical) an amount of land (usually 12 jugerums) considered cultivable yearly by using two oxen or a single plough

Latin

Participle

mānsō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mānsus

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuetus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
  • Hyphenation: man‧so

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

  1. (of animals) tame (mild and well-behaved)
  2. (of people) meek; submissive (following orders without protest)
  3. (of nature and natural phenomena) mild; gentle; tranquil

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmanso/
  • Rhymes: -anso
  • Syllabification: man‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuētus.

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

  1. tame, meek; not threatening
    Antonyms: bravo, amenazante, agresivo, peligroso, perrucho
Derived terms

Noun

manso m (plural mansos)

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  1. bellwether (the leading sheep, goat or res of a flock)
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Etymology 2

Possibly an alteration of inmenso.

Adjective

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

  1. (colloquial, intensifier, Chile, Panama) gigantic, big
Usage notes
  • Used before the noun in exclamatory phrases, sometimes preceded by an article

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