manto

Borrowed from Italian manto or Spanish manto. Doublet of mantum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæntəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æntəʊ

manto (plural mantos or mantoes)

1. Obsolete form of manteau.

• “manto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• NOTAM, Toman, notam, toman

Borrowed from Spanish or Italian manto, both from Latin mantum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈman.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈman.to]

manto m (plural mantos)

1. (archaic) cloak

• mantó

• manta
• mantell

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “manto”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Spanish manto (“cloak”), from Late Latin mantum, back-formation from mantellum, ultimately from Gaulish [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanto/, [ˈmãn̪.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: man‧to

manto

1. mantle; cloak

From French mante, from New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “seer, prophet, soothsayer”). Compare Italian mantide, Portuguese mantídeo, Spanish mantodeo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanto/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: man‧to

manto (accusative singular manton, plural mantoj, accusative plural mantojn)

1. mantis, praying mantis

• “manto”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “manto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Uncertain, possibly a variant of malto; both can refer to soft, malleable iron (meltorauta) in dialects.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnto/, [ˈmɑ̝n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑnto
• Syllabification^(key): man‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): man‧to

manto

1. (botany) sapwood (wood just under the bark of a stem or branch)

   Synonyms: mantopuu, pintapuu

• “manto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -maton, maton, monta

From Old Galician-Portuguese manto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin mantum, either a back formation from mantēllum or from Paleo-Hispanic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanto̝/

manto m (plural mantos)

1. mantle, cloak
   • 1287, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 42:

     A ponte d'Ourens, os meus pannos, conuén saber, o manto e o pelote e a saya.

     To the [contruccion of the] bridge of Ourense I bequeath my clothes, that is, the mantle and the garment and the robe

• manta
• mantón

• mantelo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “manto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “manto”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manto”, 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), “manto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French manteau.

• IPA^(key): /mãto/

manto

1. coat

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[3], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 125

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.to/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: màn‧to

From Late Latin mantum.

manto m (plural manti)

1. mantle, cloak
2. layer, surface, blanket, carpet

   Synonyms: coltre, strato

3. pavement

Borrowed from Middle French maint.

manto (feminine manta, masculine plural manti, feminine plural mante)

1. (poetic, obsolete) many

• manto¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• manto² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• monta

manto

1. Rōmaji transcription of マント

By surface analysis, maneō (“to stay”) +‎ -tō. De Vaan suggests that the term was formed from *mantos, which De Vaan suggests to have been the older perfect participle to Latin maneō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈman.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈman.to]

mantō (present infinitive mantāre, perfect active mantāvī, supine mantātum); first conjugation (pre-classical)

1. (intransitive) to stay, remain, wait
2. (transitive) to await, wait for

• “manto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• manto in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “manto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “maneō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362

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• Rhymes: -antɔ
• Syllabification: man‧to

Uncertain, possibly from Latin memento (“remember”).

manto n

1. (colloquial or dialectal, Kuyavia, Central Greater Poland, Kalisz Voivodeship) beating, licking

   Synonyms: lanie, wały, cięgi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manto f

1. vocative singular of manta

• “manto”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “manto”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “manto”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 273
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “manto”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 216

From Late Latin mantum.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: man‧to

manto m (plural mantos)

1. cloak (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
2. (zoology) mantle (body wall of a mollusc)
3. (geology) mantle (layer between the Earth’s core and crust)

• “manto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “manto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Late Latin mantum, back-formation from mantellum, ultimately from Gaulish [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanto/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: man‧to

manto m (plural mantos)

1. shroud, cloak
2. layer, surface, blanket, carpet
3. (geology) mantle
4. (malacology) mantle

• Chavacano: manto
• → English: manto

• “manto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̀ntò/

manto

1. ring

• Martinez, Esther (1982), San Juan Pueblo Téwa Dictionary, San Juan Pueblo Bilingual Program, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico: Bishop Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 27

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مانتو (manto),^[1] borrowed from French manteau.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.to/
• Hyphenation: man‧to

manto (definite accusative mantoyu, plural mantolar)

1. A women's coat or overcoat.

   Synonym: palto

2. (geology) mantle

• “manto”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “manto”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3056