mansio

Latin

Etymology

From maneō (“I remain, stay”) (perfect passive participle mānsus) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.si.oː/, [ˈmä̃ːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.si.o/, [ˈmänsio]

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.

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
  • French: maison
  • Angevin: méson
  • Bourguignon: mageon, maizon, mayon (Morvandiau)
  • Champaignat: mâjon
  • Lorrain: mageon
  • Norman: maisoun
  • Picard: maison, moaison (Amiens), mason (Nord-Pas de Calais)
  • Walloon: måjhon
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: maisom, meisom
    • Portuguese: mesão
  • → Old Spanish: maison
    • Spanish: mesón
  • → Middle English: meyne
• >? 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

Reflexes of the derived form mānsiōnāta:

• Old French: maisnee, mesnie
  • → English: meinie
• Old Occitan: maisnada, maisonada
  • Catalan: mainada
  • Occitan: mainada
  • → Italian: masnada
• Spanish: mesnada

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mansio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 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