mansio
Latin
Etymology
From maneō (“I remain, stay”) (perfect passive participle mānsus) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈman.si.oː/, [ˈmä̃ːs̠ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈman.si.o/, [ˈmänsio]
Noun
mānsiō f (genitive mānsiōnis); third declension
- An act or instance of staying, remaining; stay, continuance.
- A dwelling, abode, habitation, home.
- (on a journey) A stopping place or halting place, station; stage.
- Night quarters, place for lodging or renting, inn.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mānsiō | mānsiōnēs |
| Genitive | mānsiōnis | mānsiōnum |
| Dative | mānsiōnī | mānsiōnibus |
| Accusative | mānsiōnem | mānsiōnēs |
| Ablative | mānsiōne | mānsiōnibus |
| Vocative | mānsiō | mānsiōnēs |
Derived terms
- mala mānsiō
- mānsiōnārius
- mānsiuncula
Related terms
- manentia
- maneō
- mānsitō
- mānsor
- mānsōrius
Descendants
- Dalmatian: mošun(a) (“sleeping barn for sheep”)
- Old French: maison, maisun, maisnee
- French: maison
- Angevin: méson
- Bourguignon: mageon, maizon, mayon (Morvandiau)
- Champaignat: mâjon
- Lorrain: mageon
- Norman: maisoun
- Picard: maison, moaison (Amiens), mason (Nord-Pas de Calais)
- Tourangeau: mieson
- Walloon: måjhon
- → Old Portuguese: maisom, meisom
- Portuguese: mesão
- → Old Spanish: maison
- Spanish: mesón
- → Middle English: meyne
- Old Occitan: maisnada, maisonada
- Catalan: mainada
- Occitan: mainada
- → Italian: masnada
- >? Italian: magione (“abode”)
- >? Ligurian: maxon (Old Genoese)
- >? Lombard: mason (“residence”)
- >? Piedmontese: mison
- Old Portuguese: meijão (“dwelling, home”)
- Sardinian: masone, majòne (“herd”) (Logudorese)
- → Catalan: mansió
- → English: mansion
- → French: mansion
- → Italian: mansione
- → Portuguese: mansão
- → Spanish: mansión
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mansio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 248
Further reading
- “mansio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mansio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mansio 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)
- mansio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “mansio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mansio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin