English
mas
Mas comes from French mas ‘farm, ranch, (country) house’, from Latin mānsus ‘having stayed, remained’, and ultimately from maneō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmaneō‘stay, remain, abide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmānsus‘having stayed, remained’perfect participle of maneō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmānsum
- Occitanc. 1500–presentmas‘farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan- and Catalan-speaking territories’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmas‘farm, ranch, (country) house’
- Englishearliest quotation 1978mas
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmaneō‘stay, remain, abide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmānsus‘having stayed, remained’perfect participle of maneō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmānsum
- Occitanc. 1500–presentmas‘farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan- and Catalan-speaking territories’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmas‘farm, ranch, (country) house’
- Englishearliest quotation 1978mas
Earliest quotation: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet): “When she was pregnant with her second child they…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to stay, stand still’
money, music, mind, amount, comment, mental, mouth, mention, mountain, museum, monster, auto, mount, min, monitor, monetary, demonstration, mentor, monk, mint, monument, dementia, monte, imminent, amnesty, muse, mosaic, eminent, summon, menace, ming, prominence, mont, muster, monstrous, monastery, maya, amnesia, mandarin, eminence, 118 more
through Latin maneō ‘stay, remain, abide’
remain, permanent, remnant, menagerie, menial, permanence, ménage, manet, permanency, 7 more
through Latin mānsus ‘having stayed, remained’
Today it means
noun A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin maneō / mas