Feminine
manzana
Meaning
- (feminine) apple
- (Bolivia, Costa-Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, feminine) an area corresponding to 10,000 varas, equivalent to c. 6987 m²
- (feminine) city block
Concepts
common apple
domestic apple
domestic apple tree
edible apple
urban block
dessert apple
Synonyms
Translations
pomme
Apfel
mela
maçã
poma
appel
elma
μήλο
sêv
malum
poma
تفاحFrequency
Hyphenated as
man‧za‧na
Pronounced as (IPA)
/manˈθana/
Etymology
In summary
From earlier mazana, from Vulgar Latin *mattiāna, ellipsis of māla mattiāna, plural of Latin mālum mattiānum (literally “apple of Matius”), referring to a kind of apple. Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius Caesar and Cicero, was a Roman horticulturist and author of cookbooks. Cognate with Portuguese maçã, dialectal Catalan maçana.
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