menso
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
menso (accusative singular menson, plural mensoj, accusative plural mensojn)
Derived terms edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.soː/, [ˈmẽːs̠oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.so/, [ˈmɛnso]
Participle edit
mēnsō
Old Prussian edit
Noun edit
menso
- meat
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- Vleysch Menso
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Arguably taken from Latin mēnsa (“table”); it is thought that medieval monks used the names of inanimate objects in disparaging reference to illiterate or non‐discerning people, partially out of a desire to not use an explicitly pejorative insult as would be forbidden by their canons.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menso (feminine mensa, masculine plural mensos, feminine plural mensas)
- (offensive, Mexico, Central America) foolish, dull
- (offensive, Mexico, Central America) distracted, absent-minded
- Synonyms: absorto, distraído
- Antonyms: aguzado, atento, concentrado
- (offensive, Mexico) ignorant
- Synonym: ignorante
- Antonyms: conocedor, inteligente, sabio
- (offensive, Mexico) inexpert
- (offensive, Mexico) timid, shy
- (offensive, Mexico) ingenuous, naive
- Synonyms: inexperto, ingenuo
- Antonyms: colmilludo, sagaz
Usage notes edit
- Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts these adjectives each have a different degree of severity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in this rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive sense.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “menso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014