mainada
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan maisnada, maisonada, from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta, from Latin mānsiō ("dwelling"). In the sense of "children", it originally meant all children in a particular household.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mainada f (plural mainades)
- (collective, historical) a company of armed men in the service of a lord
- (collective) children
- 1971, Joan Arús, “Nit de Reis”, in Les veus de la nit:
- Ja sé que tomareu com cada anyada,
vinguts d'estranys, misteriosos mons,
oh Mags!, desvetlladors d'il·lusion
en els cors innocents de la mainada.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading edit
- “mainada” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “mainada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *mansiōnāta, from Latin mansiō ("dwelling").
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
mainada f (plural mainadas)
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Further reading edit
- Arve Cassignac, Dictionnaire français-occitan, occitan-français, 2015
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