The way we use to live, The etymology of Mansion.



Denonative is derive from denotation and it is a noun and it means the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Connotative is derive from connotation and it is a noun and it means an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. 

Etymology is a noun that means the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.

Mansion is a noun and it means a very large, impressive, or stately residence.
Mansion is a noun and it has been utter sinces mid-14c., "chief residence of a lord," from Old French mansion "stay, permanet abode,  house, habitation, home; mansion; state, situation (13c.), from Latin mansionem (nominative mansio) "a staying, a remaining, night quarters, station," noun of action from past participle stem of manere "to stay, abide" (from PIE root *men-(3a) "to remain").  Sense of "any large and stately house" is from 1510s.  The word also was used in Middle English as "a stop or stage of a journey," hence probably astrological sense "temporary home" (late 14c.).

Path words are words that lead to a word some how. Lets look at the definition of path. Path is a noun and it means a way beaten, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals. Now lets look at the definition of word. Word is a noun and it means a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that function as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black-bird- from black-bird- . Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages. So think of path words along that path.

PIE root is derive from Proto-Indo-European root is a noun that means the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Indo-European languages; Indo-European.  Lets take a deeper look at this:

Proto- is a combining from meaning "first," "foremost," "earliest from of," used in the formation of compound words (protomartyr; protolithic; protoplasm), specialized in chemical terminology to denote the one containing the minimum amount of an element.  
Proto- before vowels prot-, word-forming elemen meaning "first, source, parent, preceding, earliest form, original, basic, from Greek proto-, from protos "first," from PIE *pre, from root *per-(1) "forward" (hence "before, first").

Indo-European is a noun and it means a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the word's population:  English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages.

Root is a noun and it means a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.

Men-(3.)- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to remain." It froms all or part of: maisonette; manor; mansion; menage; menial; immanent; permanent; remain; remainder.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by : persian mandan "to remain;" Greek menein "to remain;" Latin manere "to stay, abide."

Maisonette is a noun and it means a small house, especially one connected to a large apartment building.
Maisonette is a noun around 1818, "small house," from maisonnette, diminutive of maison "house" (11c.), from Latin mansionem.  Meaning "a part of a building let separately" is from 1912.

Manor is a noun and it means (in England ) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
Manor is a noun around late 13c., "mansion, habitation, country residence, principal house of an estate," from Anglo-French maner, Old French manoir "abode, home, dwelling place; manor" (12c.), noun use of maneir "to dwell," from Latin manere "to stay, abide," from PIE *men-(3) "to remain."  As a unit of territorial division in Britain and some American colonies (usually "land held in demesne by a lord, with tenants") it is attested from 1530s.

Manse is a noun and it means the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
Manse (n.) around late 15c., "mansion house," from Medieval Latin mansus "dwelling house; amount of land sufficient for a family," noun use of masculine past participle of Latin manere "to remain " ( from PIE root *men-(3) "to remain").

Menage or menage is a noun and it means a domestic establishment; household.
1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from French menage, from Old French mange "household, family dwelling" (12c.) from Vulgar Latin *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from Latin mansionem "dwelling".  Now generally used in suggestive borrowed phrase menage atrois (1891), literally "household of three."  Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c. 1300); but this was obsolete by c. 1500.

Menial is an adjective and it means lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
Menial (adj.) in the late 14c.; "pertaining to a household," from Anglo-French meignial from Old French mesnie "household,"
earlier mesnede, from Vulgar Latin *mansionata, from Latin mansionem "dwelling".  Sense of "lowly, humble, suited to a servant" is recorded by 1670s.

Menial as an noun means a domestic servant.
Menial (n.) is a "domestic servant," late 14c., meynyal; see menial(adj.).

Immanent is an adjective and it means remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
Immanent(adj.) is an "indwelling, remaining within, inherent," 1530s,  via French immanent (14c.) or directly from Late Latin immanens, present participle of immanere "to dwell in, remain in," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") Latin manere "to dwell" (from PIE root *men-(3) "to remain").  In medieval philosophy comtrasted with transitive; later with transcendent. Related: Immanently.

Permanent is an adjective and it means existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without signigicant change.
Permanent (adj.) in early 15c., form Middle French permanent (14c.) or directly from Latin permanentem (nominative permanens) "remaining," present participle of permanere "endure, hold out, continue, stay to the end," from per "through"(from PIE root *per-(1) "forward," hence "through") + manere "stay" (from PIE root *men-(3) "to remain").  As a noun meaning "permanent waave, "by 1909.  OF clothing, permanent press attested from 1964.

Remain is verb (used without object) and it means to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
Remain (v.) early 15c., from Anglo- French remayn-, Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir "to stay, dwell, remain; be left; hold out," from Latin remanere "to remain, to stay behind; be left behind; endure, abide, last" (source also of Old Spanish remaner, Italian rimanere), from re-"back" (see re-)+ manere "to stay, remain" (from PIE root *men-(3) "to remain"). Related:  Remained; remaining.

Re- word origin - a prefix, occurring originally in loawords from Latin, used with the meaning "again" or "again and again" to indicate repetiton, or with the meaning "back" or "backword" to indicate withdrawal or backward motion: regenerate; refurbish; retype; retrace; revert.
Re- word- forming meaning "back to the original place; again, anew, once more," also with a sense of "undoing," c. 1200, from Old French and directly from Latin re- "again, back, anew, against," Latin combining from conceivably from Indo- European *wret-, metathetical variant of *wert- "to turn" [Watkins].  Often merely intensive, and in many of the older borrowing from French and Latin the precise sense of re- is lost in secondary senses or weakened beyond recognitian. OED writes that it is "impossible to attempt a complete record of all the forms resulting from it use," and adds that " The number of these is practically infinite..." The Latin prefix became red-before vowels and h-, as in redact, redeem, redolent, redundant.

Remainder is a noun and it means something that remains or is left: the remainder of the day. 
Remainder(n.)- late 14c., from Anglo- French remainder, Old French remaindre, noun use of infinitive, a variant of Old French remanoir "to stay, dwell, remain; be left; hold out," from Latin remanere "to remain, to stay behind; be left behind; endure, abide, last" (source also of Old Spanish remaner, Italian rimanere), from re- "back" (see re-) + manere " to stay, remain" (from PIE root *men-(3) " to remain").  The verb meaning "dispose of (books) at a reduced price" is from 1904. Related: Remaindered.

Information found on Dictionary.con and etymonline.com.

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