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mansio

staying, lodging

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Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Alexander Severus 4 · 3.74/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 21 · 2.98/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mansio — de Vaan

mansio 'staying, lodging' (Ter.+). Pit *m(o)n-e-. PIE *mn-ehr 'to remain'. IE cognates: Skt. amaman [3s.ipf./aor.act] 'has waited', mamandhi [2s.ipv.act.] 'wait!', pari .. . mamanyat [3s.optact] 'if he would miss / neglect', YAv. upa.mqnaiia- 'to wait', OP manaya- 'to expect'; Gr. μένω 'to remain, stay', μίμνω 'id.', μονή 'staying, detention*, Arm. mnam 'stay, expect'. The ppp. mansus (whence mansT) is a secondary … — [de Vaan, s.v. mansio, p. 376]

2. mansĭo — Lewis & Short

mansĭo, ōnis, f.maneo,

I a staying, remaining, stay, continuance.

I Lit. (class.): is saepe mecum de tua mansione, aut decessione communicat, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5: mansio Formiis, id. Att. 9, 5, 1: excessus e vita et in vita mansio, id. Fin. 3, 18, 60: cautior certe est mansio, id. Att. 8, 15, 2: diutinae Lemni, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 23: crebrae ad amicam, i. e. visits, Turp. ap. Non. 132, 16.—

II Transf. (post-Aug.), a place of abode, a dwelling, habitation.

A In gen.: pecorum mansio, Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 194: aestivae, hibernae, vernae, auctumnales, Pall. 1, 9, 5; 1, 12: mansionem apud eum faciemus, Vulg. Joann. 14, 23: multae mansiones, id. ib. 14, 2.—

B Esp.

1 Night-quarters, lodging-place, inn; also, as a measure of days' journeys, a stopping or haltingplace, station: deinde ad primam statim mansionem febrim nactus, Suet. Tib. 10: a quo (monte) octo mansionibus distat regio, etc., i. e. stations, days' journeys, Plin. 12, 14, 30, § 52: aquationum ratione mansionibus dispositis, id. 6, 23, 26, § 102: continuatis mansionibus, Just. 13, 8, 5.—

2 Mala mansio, bad quarters, a kind of punishment in which the culprit was stretched out and tied fast to a board, Dig. 47, 10, 15; 16, 3, 7.

In the wild

mansione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.3.p2
mansionibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.23.p4
mansione Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.3.p2
mansionem Historia Augusta, Severus 22
mansiones Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 48
mansione Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.10.8

6 of 58 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mansio (scan pp. 376-377; entry #997). Root candidates: *mene-, *mone-, *mo-.

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