mantia

See also: Mantia and -mantia

Dacian

Etymology

Considered as a Dacian word by Furnée (1972: 209, 272), "with no apparent reason" according to Beekes, who considers it a Mediterranean wanderwort. Compare Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”) and Proto-Albanian *manta (Albanian man (“mulberry”), Gheg Albanian mand(ë) 'mulberry(-tree)' and Tosk Albanian mën). Furnée compares Sardian mat(t)a "brushwood, brush-vegetation; perennial plant" and Basque mata (“tree-stump”), and states that βάτος (bátos) cannot be separated from these words.

Noun

mantia

the edible blueberry plant

References

Bertoldi, Vittorio: 1933, “Preellenico” βάτος, μαντία “cespuglio, rovo” e “preromano” *matta, * mantia “cespuglio, rovo". Glotta 21 (3/4), 258–267. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40265352

Furnée, Edzard J.: 1972, Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen: Mit einem Appendix über den Vokalismus. Janua linguarum. Series practica, nr. 150. The Hague: Mouton.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Dacian mantia, through Ancient Greek μαντεία (manteía).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /manˈtiː.a/, [män̪ˈt̪iːä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /manˈti.a/, [män̪ˈt̪iːä]

Noun

mantīa f (genitive mantīae); first declension

The plant blackberry among the Dacians

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mantīa	mantīae
genitive	mantīae	mantīārum
dative	mantīae	mantīīs
accusative	mantīam	mantīās
ablative	mantīā	mantīīs
vocative	mantīa	mantīae

References

“mantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
mantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.