manso

From Vulgar Latin *mansus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈman.so/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈman.su/

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

1. Alternative form of mans (“tame”)

manso m (plural mansos)

1. (colloquial) guy, chap, fellow

   Synonym: paio

2. (colloquial) boyfriend

   Synonym: amant

• “manso” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Spanish manso (“tame”).

manso

1. meek; tame

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmansʊ]

manso m (feminine singular 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

• mansedume

• “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.

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

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

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

1. (literary, regional) meek, tame
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXVIII, lines 76–78, page 416:

     Quali si stanno ruminando manse ¶ le capre, state rapide e proterve ¶ sovra le cime avante che sien pranse

     Even as in ruminating passive grow the goats, who have been swift and venturesome upon the mountain-tops ere they were fed

   Synonyms: docile, mansueto

• mansueto

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

manso m (plural mansi)

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

mānsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mānsus

From Vulgar Latin *mansus, from Latin mansuetus.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
• Hyphenation: man‧so

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

• (submissive): submisso
• (mild): tranquilo, calmo, brando

• mansamente

• amansar

• “manso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanso/ [ˈmãn.so]
• Rhymes: -anso
• Syllabification: man‧so

From Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuētus.

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

1. tame, meek; not threatening

   Antonyms: bravo, amenazante, agresivo, peligroso, perrucho

manso m (plural mansos)

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

• mansedumbre

Possibly an alteration of inmenso.

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

1. (colloquial, intensifier, Chile) gigantic, big

Used before the noun in exclamatory phrases, sometimes preceded by an article

• “manso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014