mastus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *mast (“ship mast”). Found in the 8th-century Reichenau Glossary.

Pronunciation

Noun

mastus m (genitive mastī); second declension[1][2] (Medieval Latin)

  1. ship mast

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mastus mastī
Genitive mastī mastōrum
Dative mastō mastīs
Accusative mastum mastōs
Ablative mastō mastīs
Vocative maste mastī

Descendants
  • Old French: mast, maste
    • Middle French: mast
      • French: mât
    • Norman: mât
    • → Spanish: maste
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: masto, maste
      • Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto
        • ⇒ Portuguese: mastaréu
  • Occitan: mast

References
  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “mastus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 660
  2. mastus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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