guisa
Catalan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognate with English wise and German Weise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guises)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “guisa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
guisa
- inflection of guisar:
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
13th century. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), probably through Vulgar Latin.[1] Cognate with, among others, English wise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guisas)
- (now literary) manner, way
- 1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 173:
- Boa tĩta se deue faser en esta guisa: Para hũu neto de tĩta, õça e media de agalla
- The good ink must be prepared in this wise: for preparing a neto of ink, an ounce and a half of oak gall
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “guisa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “guisa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “guisa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “guisa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “guisa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “guisa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
guisa
- inflection of guisar:
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *wîsa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).
Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Portuguese guisa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guise)
Further reading edit
- guisa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin [Term?] (compare Old French guise, Italian guisa), from Proto-Germanic *wisa, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).
Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish guisa, Italian guisa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (oblique plural guisas, nominative singular guisa, nominative plural guisas)
- way, manner
- c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:
- Ma dona m'assai' e·m prueva, / Quossi de qual guiza l'am [...].
- My lady tries to test me to find out how much I love her.
Old Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
- guysa (alternative spelling)
Etymology edit
From a Germanic root related to *wīsaz (“wise”), perhaps through Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa). Cognate with German Weise (“way, manner”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guisas)
- way, manner
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 32v:
- Vio ſaul el albergada de los philiſteos e ouo mẏedo. ⁊ demãdo c̃ſeio al nr̃o ſẽnor. E nol reſpõdio en nulla guẏſa.
- [Then] Saul saw the encampment of the Philistines and he was afraid. And he sought the counsel of Our Lord, [but] He did not respond to him in any way.
Synonyms edit
- manera f
Descendants edit
- Spanish: guisa
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French guise, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą, related to *wīsaz (“wise”).
Cognate with English wise and German Weise. Compare Spanish and Italian guisa.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: gui‧sa
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guisas)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “guisa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
guisa
- inflection of guisar:
Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Spanish guisa. Likely from Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*weisa, “way, manner”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō (“way, method, etc.”), related to *wīsaz (“wise”). Compare English wise, guise and German weise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
guisa f (plural guisas)
- manner, guise, way
- 1585, Miguel de Cervantes, La Galatea 1:
- el diestro brazo levantado, a guisa de quien esperaba hacer algún recio tiro
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- habit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “guisa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
guisa
- inflection of guisar: