mastus

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Frankish *mast (“ship mast”). Found in the 8th-century Reichenau Glossary.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tus/, [ˈmäs̠t̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tus/, [ˈmäst̪us]

Noun edit

mastus m (genitive mastī); second declension^[1]^[2] (Medieval Latin)

ship mast

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mastus	mastī
Genitive	mastī	mastōrum
Dative	mastō	mastīs
Accusative	mastum	mastōs
Ablative	mastō	mastīs
Vocative	maste	mastī

Descendants edit

Old French: mast, maste
- Middle French: mast
  - French: mât
- Norman: mât
- → Spanish: maste
  - ⇒ Spanish: mástel (spelling influenced by árbol)
    - ⇒ Spanish: mástil
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: masto, maste
  - Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto
    - ⇒ Portuguese: mastaréu
Occitan: mast

References edit

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “mastus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 660
^ mastus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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