mandra

See also: mândra, Mândra, mândră, and Mândră

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mandra (flock). Compare the Italian expression darsi alla mandra (to give oneself to idleness, literally to give oneself to the herd).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈman.dɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈman.dɾa]
  • Audio (Barcelona):(file)

Noun

mandra f (plural mandres)

  1. laziness
    Synonyms: peresa, accídia
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 8, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      Ella no es movia del seu matalàs de molsa. Mirava el cel i estirava els braços, amb mandra.
      She didn't move from her mossy mattress. She looked at the sky, lazily streching her arms.

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Noun

mandra f (plural mandre)

  1. (uncommon) alternative form of mandria (herd)

Further reading

  • mandra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mandra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Javanese

Romanization

mandra

  1. romanization of ꦩꦤ꧀ꦢꦿ

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra, enclosed space; barn).

Pronunciation

Noun

mandra f (genitive mandrae); first declension

  1. (poetic) a stall or pen for cattle
  2. a column or train of pack animals
  3. an enclosure used in the board game Ludus latrunculorum

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mandra mandrae
genitive mandrae mandrārum
dative mandrae mandrīs
accusative mandram mandrās
ablative mandrā mandrīs
vocative mandra mandrae

Descendants

  • Catalan: mandra
  • Italian: mandria, mandra
  • Sardinian: mandra
  • Albanian: mandër
  • Old Irish: mainder

References

  • mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mandra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "mandra", 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)
  • mandra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Leschber, Corinna (2011) “Zeitliche Tiefe etymologischer Bezüge [Time depth in etymological research]”, in Linguistique Balkanique[1] (in German), volume 50, numbers 2–3, Sofia, pages 75–78
  • mandra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mandra, variant of mandria, from Latin mandra, from Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈman.dra/

Noun

mandra f (plural mnadar, paucal mandriet, diminutive mnajdra)

  1. an outdoors pen, traditionally in the courtyard of a farmhouse, used mostly for small livestock such as chickens, goats, etc.
  2. a plot of ground at the back of a farmhouse
  3. mess, disorder
    Alternative form: mandar

Derived terms

  • tmandar

See also

Occitan

Etymology

Probably from Provençal mandrat/mandre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmandɾo]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

mandra f (plural mandras)

  1. fox

Dialectal variants

References