mansuetus

Latin

Etymology

Past participle of mānsuēscō.

Compare typologically Russian ручно́й (ručnój) (< рука́ (ruká)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mãːˈsʷeː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [manˈsʷɛː.tus]

Adjective

mānsuētus (feminine mānsuēta, neuter mānsuētum); first/second-declension adjective

1. tamed, tame

   Synonym: mānsuēs

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mānsuētus	mānsuēta	mānsuētum		mānsuētī	mānsuētae	mānsuēta
genitive	mānsuētī	mānsuētae	mānsuētī		mānsuētōrum	mānsuētārum	mānsuētōrum
dative	mānsuētō	mānsuētae	mānsuētō		mānsuētīs
accusative	mānsuētum	mānsuētam	mānsuētum		mānsuētōs	mānsuētās	mānsuēta
ablative	mānsuētō	mānsuētā	mānsuētō		mānsuētīs
vocative	mānsuēte	mānsuēta	mānsuētum		mānsuētī	mānsuētae	mānsuēta

Derived terms

• immānsuētus
• mānsuētārius
• mānsuētūdō
• mānsuētō

Descendants

• → Catalan: mansuet
• → Italian: mansueto
• → Occitan: mansuet
• → Sicilian: manzuetu
• → Spanish: mansueto
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mānsus
  • Catalan: mans, manso
  • Galician: manso
  • Italian: manso
  • Mirandese: manso
  • Portuguese: manso
  • Sicilian: manzu
  • Spanish: manso
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mānsuētīnus
  • Old French: mastin
    • French: mâtin
    • → Catalan: mastí
    • → Irish: maistín
    • → Italian: mastino
    • → Middle English: mastyf, mastif, masty, mastyff, mestyf, maystyf, mestif
      • English: mastiff
        • → Welsh: mastiff
      • Scots: mastiff
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: mastin
      • Galician: mastín
      • Portuguese: mastim
    • → Sicilian: mastinu

References

• “mansuetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mansuetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mansuetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.