mayordomo

From Spanish mayordomo.

mayordomo (plural mayordomos)

1. A butler or majordomo in Spain or Latin America.

Borrowed from Late Latin maior domūs (literally “principal (servant) of the house”).

• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: ma‧yor‧do‧mo

mayordomo m (plural mayordomos, feminine mayordoma, feminine plural mayordomas)

1. butler, majordomo

• “mayordomo”, 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

• mayoldomo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• mayuldumo — obsolete

Borrowed from Spanish mayordomo, from Late Latin maior domūs.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /majoɾˈdomo/ [mɐ.joɾˈd̪oː.mo]
• Rhymes: -omo
• Syllabification: ma‧yor‧do‧mo

mayordomo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜌᜓᜇ᜔ᜇᜓᜋᜓ)

1. majordomo

   Synonyms: bandahali, punong-katiwala

• anakura

• “mayordomo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 410: “Mayordomo) Mayoldomo (pp) C. de la comunidad Igleſia”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017) Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 106

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