guisa

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognate with English wise and German Weise.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡi.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡi.za]

guisa f (plural guises)

1. manner, way

• a guisa de
• guisar

• “guisa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

13th century. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), probably through Vulgar Latin.^[1] Cognate with, among others, English wise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡisa̝/

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. (now literary) manner, way
   • 1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 173:

     Boa tĩta se deue faser en esta guisa: Para hũu neto de tĩta, õça e media de agalla

     The good ink must be prepared in this wise: for preparing a neto of ink, an ounce and a half of oak gall

• aguisar
• guisadeira
• guisado
• guisar
• guiso

• “guisa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “guisa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “guisa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guisa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “guisa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wîsa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Portuguese guisa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwi.za/
• Rhymes: -iza
• Hyphenation: guì‧sa

guisa f (plural guise)

1. (literary) manner, way

• guisa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• guia
• guiza

From Late Latin [Term?] (compare Old French guise, Italian guisa), from Proto-Germanic *wisa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish guisa, Italian guisa.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiza/

guisa f (oblique plural guisas, nominative singular guisa, nominative plural guisas)

1. way, manner
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:

     Ma dona m'assai' e·m prueva, / Quossi de qual guiza l'am [...].

     My lady tries to test me to find out how much I love her.

• guysa (alternative spelling)

From a Germanic root related to *wīsaz (“wise”), perhaps through Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa). Cognate with German Weise (“way, manner”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiza/

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. way, manner
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 32v:

     Vio ſaul el albergada de los philiſteos e ouo mẏedo. ⁊ demãdo c̃ſeio al nr̃o ſẽnor. E nol reſpõdio en nulla guẏſa.

     [Then] Saul saw the encampment of the Philistines and he was afraid. And he sought the counsel of Our Lord, [but] He did not respond to him in any way.

• manera f

• Spanish: guisa

Borrowed from French guise, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).

Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Italian guisa.

• Hyphenation: gui‧sa

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. manner, habit

   Synonym: maneira

2. way

   Synonym: modo

   à guisa de ― by way of

• aguisar

• “guisa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old Spanish guisa. Likely from Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa, “way, manner”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō (“way, method, etc.”), related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Compare English wise, guise and German weise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡisa/ [ˈɡi.sa]
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: gui‧sa

guisa f (plural guisas)

1. manner, guise, way
   • 1585, Miguel de Cervantes, La Galatea 1:

     el diestro brazo levantado, a guisa de quien esperaba hacer algún recio tiro

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. habit

   Synonyms: hábito, costumbre

• “guisa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

guisa

1. inflection of guisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative