mansuescere

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mānsuēscere (“to tame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.suˈɛʃ.ʃe.re/, /manˈswɛʃ.ʃe.re/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃʃere
• Hyphenation: man‧su‧è‧sce‧re, man‧suè‧sce‧re

Verb

mansuescere

1. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) to tame (to become tame)
   • c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato secondo, capitolo I”, in Convivio‎^[1], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 3:

     che vuol dire che lo savio uomo con lo strumento de la sua voce fa[r]ia mansuescere e umiliare li crudeli cuori, e fa[r]ia muovere a la sua volontade coloro che non hanno vita di scienza e d’arte

     which is to say that the wise man with the instrument of his voice makes cruel hearts grow tender and humble and moves to his will those who do not devote their lives to knowledge and art

Conjugation

• The verb is only attested in the infinitive form.

Related terms

• mansueto

Further reading

• mansuescere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

mānsuēscere

1. inflection of mānsuēscō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative