manso

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mānsus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈman.su]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈman.so]

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural manses)

1. alternative form of mans (“tame”)

manso m (plural mansos)

1. (colloquial) guy, chap, fellow

   Synonym: paio

2. (colloquial) boyfriend

   Synonym: amant

• “manso”, 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

From Spanish manso (“tame”).

manso

1. meek; tame

From Old Galician-Portuguese manso, from Vulgar Latin *mansus, from Latin mansuetus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmansʊ]

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

1. (of animals) tame (mild and well-behaved)

   Antonym: bravo

2. (of plants) grafted; cultured

   Antonym: bravo

3. (of people) meek; gentle

   Antonym: bravo

4. (of nature and natural phenomena) mild; gentle

• mansedume

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “manso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “manso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manso”, 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), “manso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.so/
• Rhymes: -anso
• Hyphenation: màn‧so

From Vulgar Latin *mānsus, back-formed from Latin mānsuētus.

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansi, feminine plural manse)

1. (literary, regional) meek, tame

   Synonyms: docile, mansueto

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Quali si stanno ruminando manse
     le capre, state rapide e proterve
     sovra le cime avante che sien pranse […]

     Like the meek ruminating goats, having been swift and haughty upon the mountaintops before being sated […]

• mansueto

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mānsum (“residence”), from Latin mānsus, perfect passive participle of maneō (“to stay, remain”).

manso m (plural mansi)

1. (historical) an amount of land (usually 12 jugerums) considered cultivable yearly by using two oxen or a single plough

mānsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mānsus

From Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuetus.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
• Hyphenation: man‧so

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

1. (of animals) tame (mild and well-behaved)
2. (of people) meek; submissive (following orders without protest)
3. (of nature and natural phenomena) mild; gentle; tranquil

• (submissive): submisso
• (mild): tranquilo, calmo, brando

• mansamente

• amansar

• “manso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanso/ [ˈmãn.so]
• Rhymes: -anso
• Syllabification: man‧so

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuētus.

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

1. tame, meek; not threatening

   Antonyms: bravo, amenazante, agresivo, peligroso, perrucho

manso m (plural mansos)

1. bellwether (the leading sheep, goat or res of a flock)

Possibly an alteration of inmenso.

manso (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural mansas)

1. (colloquial, intensifier, Chile, Panama) gigantic, big

• Used before the noun in exclamatory phrases, sometimes preceded by an article

• “manso”, 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