mantel

A variant of mantle (“cloak, robe”) now distinguished in sense.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.təl/

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• Homophones: mantle
• Rhymes: -æntəl

mantel (plural mantels)

1. The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
2. (climbing) A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.

• mantelpiece

mantel (third-person singular simple present mantels, present participle mantelling or (US) manteling, simple past and past participle mantelled or (US) manteled)

1. (climbing) To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.

• mantelshelf

• Lament., Mantle, lament, manlet, mantle, mental

From Dutch mantel, from Middle Dutch mantel, from Latin mantēllum.

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

mantel (plural mantels, diminutive manteltjie)

1. cloak, mantle, gown
2. (figurative) mantle
3. jacket of an object, casing, sheathing
4. the mantle of a planet
5. a building's cope
6. (rare) firescreen

From Spanish mantel (“tablecloth”).

mantél

1. tablecloth

From Middle Dutch mantel, from Latin mantēllum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑn.təl/

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• Hyphenation: man‧tel

mantel m (plural mantels, diminutive manteltje n)

1. cape, cloak, mantle
2. (now chiefly Belgium, elsewhere somewhat dated outside certain compounds) coat, jacket
3. (Suriname) raincoat

   Synonyms: regenjas, regenmantel

4. the mantle of a planet
5. the hull of an object
6. the mantle of a chimney or furnace
7. scallop, bivalve of the family Pectinidae

   Synonym: mantelschelp

8. (figurative) guise, facade (deceitful appearance, cover)
   • 1710, Joseph Merat, Josef Merats Uitgang uit Egipten, of bekeerde munnik, tr. from French by M. Kind, page 110.

     Doch hoe gevoeligh dat ze mynen ſtaat door verzoekſchriften aan die van Rotterdam hadden afgemaalt, waren ze echter in hun voornemen bedroogen, want deze Brieven konden by die Predikanten niets te weeg brengen, naardien ze vreesden dat myne bekeringh ſlechts een Mantel was, waar onder ik myne ſnoodheid bedekken wilde.

     Though no matter how emotionally they had depicted my condition to those from Rotterdam in letters of petition, they were however proven wrong in their intention, because these letters could not accomplish anything among those ministers, because they feared that my conversion was only a guise, under which I wanted to cover my dastardliness.

   • 1836 October 1, "Den Z. Eerw. Heeren F. J. van Vree en J. G. Wennekendonk", Catholijke Nederlandsche stemmen, vol. 2, no. 40, page 320, footnote 2.

     Dit is slechts een mantel om u voor ons te verbergen.

     This is merely a facade to hide you for us.

   • 1869, Hans Wachenhusen, Het leven te Parijs onder het tweede Keizerrijk, tr. by J. van Gogh, page 22.

     Al is ook het gansche weefsel der Parijsche luxe heden niet meer dan een mantel om daaronder de armoede des geestes van den parvenu te bedekken, toch is het daarom niets minder begoochelend.

     Even though the entire fabric of Parisian luxury is nowadays no more than a guise to cover the mental poverty of the upstart underneath it, yet it is no less captivating because of that.

• Afrikaans: mantel
• Negerhollands: mantel
• Petjo: mantel
• → Caribbean Javanese: mantel
• → Indonesian: mantel
• → Papiamentu: mantel

From Middle Low German mantel, from Latin mantellum.

mantel (genitive mantli, partitive mantlit)

1. coat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• mantel in Sõnaveeb

• mantel in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

• mantés

Attested in Galician since the 13th century. Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin mantēle, mantēlium.

• IPA^(key): /manˈtɛl/

mantel m (plural manteis)

1. tablecloth
   • 1257, A. Martínez Salazar (ed.), Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI. A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 25:

     cada ano unos bóós mantééns de VIIIj. uaras enlongo et de v. palmos en ancho parao refertoyro da grana

     each year, some good tablecloth, 8 yards long and 5 palms wide, for the refectory of the farm

   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a:

     Iten dous candeiros de ferro, hun rello de rellar pan, hun qestella de mantees cobertoyras

     Item, two iron candlesticks, a scrapper for bread, a basket with tablecloths

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

From Dutch mantel (“mantle”), from Middle Dutch mantel, from Latin mantēllum.

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

mantêl (first-person possessive mantelku, second-person possessive mantelmu, third-person possessive mantelnya)

1. coat (an outer garment covering the upper torso and arms)

• “mantel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• mantell, mantelle, mantil, mantill, mantyll, mantle, mantyl, mentel

From Anglo-Norman mantel and Old English mentel, both ultimately from Late Latin mantēllum, later form of Latin mantēle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmantəl/, /manˈtɛːl/

mantel (plural mantles)

1. A mantle or robe; a loose overcoat.
   1. A mantle signifying clerical, judicial or royal office.
   2. A mantle signifying a wed woman's vows of virginity.
2. A kirtle; a short coat.
3. A large cloth; a blanket:
   1. (figurative) A cover; something which envelopes.
   2. (figurative, rare) A pretext; an ostensible purpose.
4. (rare) A mantle (outer body wall of a mollusc).
5. (anatomy, rare) A region of the liver.

• mantellen

• English: mantle, mantel
• Scots: mantle, mantel; manteel

• “mantel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin mantellum via German Mantel.

mantel m (definite singular mantelen, indefinite plural mantler, definite plural mantlene)

1. a mantel or mantelpiece, a shelf above a fireplace or support for the chimney
2. a cover to protect or strengthen a machine or piece of machinery
3. (geology) a mantle, the layer between the Earth's core and crust

• “mantel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin mantellum via German Mantel.

mantel m (definite singular mantelen, indefinite plural mantlar, definite plural mantlane)

1. a mantel or mantelpiece, a shelf above a fireplace or support for the chimney
2. a cover to protect or strengthen a machine or piece of machinery
3. (geology) a mantle, the layer between the Earth's core and crust

• “mantel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Late Latin mantēllum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum.

mantel m (oblique plural manteaus or manteax or mantiaus or mantiax or mantels, nominative singular manteaus or manteax or mantiaus or mantiax or mantels, nominative plural mantel)

1. mantle (clothing)
   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Fiert si que lo mantel li tranche

     He hit him so that he cut his mantle

• French: manteau (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: manté
• → Middle English: mantel (in part)

Borrowed from German Mantel, from Middle High German, from Old High German mantal, from Late Latin mantum, back-formation from Latin mantellum, from Gaulish. Doublet of manatki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.tɛl/
• Rhymes: -antɛl
• Syllabification: man‧tel

mantel m inan

1. (Poznań, Cieszyn Silesia) coat, overcoat, raincoat

   Synonym: płaszcz

• mantel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mantel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mantel n (plural mantele)

1. Alternative form of mantelă

Borrowed from German Mantel.

mantel m

1. overcoat, raincoat

From Ecclesiastical Latin mantēle, mantēlium. Doublet of mandil.

• IPA^(key): /manˈtel/ [mãn̪ˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: man‧tel

mantel m (plural manteles)

1. tablecloth
   • 1971, Joan Manuel Serrat (lyrics and music), “Qué va a ser de ti”:

     Te dejó sobre el mantel / Su adiós de papel

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• mantelería
• mantelete
• manchamanteles
• salvamanteles

• Chavacano: mantél
• → Classical Nahuatl: mantēlex

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

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

mantel c

1. a mantle, a cloak, a robe
2. (geology) a mantle, the layer between the Earth's core and crust
3. a jacket (on a bullet)
4. a mantel, a shelf above a fireplace or support for the chimney

• mantla
• osynlighetsmantel

• mental