Noun: mansedume
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mansedume |
| Plural f | mansedumes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mansedume
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Already used by the Galician author Paio Gómez Chariño in the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese *mansidõe, *mansedũe, from Latin mānsuētūdinem (“tameness”): synchronically manso (“tame, meek”) + -dume. Cognate with Portuguese mansidão and Spanish mansedumbre. See: Latin Nouns '
mānsuētūdō', Portuguese Nouns '
mansidão', Spanish Nouns '
mansedumbre'.
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