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

An act or instance of staying, remaining; stay, continuance.
A dwelling, abode, habitation, home.
(on a journey) A stopping place or halting place, station; stage.
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”)
Franco-Provençal: mêson
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

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