mansio

mansio

Latin

Etymology

    From maneō (to remain, stay, supine stem māns-) + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mānsiō f (genitive mānsiōnis); third declension

    1. An act or instance of staying, remaining; stay, continuance.
    2. A dwelling, abode, habitation, home.
    3. (on a journey) A stopping place or halting place, station; stage.
    4. Night quarters, place for lodging or renting, inn.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mānsiō mānsiōnēs
    genitive mānsiōnis mānsiōnum
    dative mānsiōnī mānsiōnibus
    accusative mānsiōnem mānsiōnēs
    ablative mānsiōne mānsiōnibus
    vocative mānsiō mānsiōnēs

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Franco-Provençal: mêson
    • Old French: maison, maisun
    • >? Italian: magione (abode)
    • >? Ligurian: maxon (Old Genoese)
    • >? Lombard: mason (residence)
    • >? Piedmontese: mison
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: meijão (dwelling, home)
    • Sardinian: masone, majòne (herd) (Logudorese)
    • Catalan: mansió
    • English: mansion
    • French: mansion
    • Italian: mansione
    • Portuguese: mansão
    • Spanish: mansión
    • Serbo-Croatian: mošun(a) (sleeping barn for sheep)

    Reflexes of the derived form *mānsiōnāta:

    References

    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, 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