mas

m- +‎ as

mas

1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

From French mas, Occitan mas.

mas (plural mas)

1. A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 520:

     When she was pregnant with her second child they ran away to France and played at being artists in a secluded mas near Avignon – two months of bliss.

mas

1. plural of ma

mas (plural mas)

1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.
   • 2017 December 22, Shane Superville, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:

     Ward, who was best known for his winning portrayal of George Bailey’s Cylindul the Sun God from the Golden City of Palengue, became a staple on the mas circuit up until the 1990s, lending his support to the likes of Peter Minshall and others.

   • 2017 September 28, “Neville Aming Passes Away At 96 In T&T”, in Bernews:

     Aming was a recipient of the Humming Bird Silver for his contribution to the vibrancy of T&T mas in 1996.

   • 2016 February 7, Michelle Loubon, “Taking a Carnival tour”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:

     Belmont masman and wire bender Richard Lera displays a headpiece at his Norfolk Street mas camp.

• 'ams, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, MSA, S. Am., SAM, SMA, Sam, Sam., sam, sma

• mat

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).[1]

• IPA^(key): [mas]

mas (first-person singular past tense mata, participle matur)

1. I measure
2. I estimate, assess
3. I consider

• mot

• matshëm
• matje

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

From Old Occitan mas, from Latin mansum.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmas/

mas m (plural masos)

1. farmhouse, typical country house

• “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: maz

mas

1. genitive plural of maso

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

1. bother, trouble

mas

1. imperative of mase

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ/, /mɑs/

mas m (plural mas)

1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in southern France)

• “mas” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From French mars (“March”)

mas

1. March

From French masse (“mass”)

mas

1. mass

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

• emas

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

mas

1. Alternative form of emas

From motoscafo armato silurante

mas m (sometimes MAS, invariable)

1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Origin unknown. Traditionally from Proto-Indo-European *meryo (“young man”) (whence Sanskrit मर्य (marya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax) and Old Armenian մարի (mari)) but this cannot account for the a-vocalism, and requires making the -s of the nominative singular analogical, running in the opposite direction to generally accepted cases of analogy (like honor < honos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːs/

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

1. a male, man

Third declension i-stem.

• (man): vir

• (man): mulier

• marītus
• masculīnus
• masculus
• sēmimās

• Aromanian: mari
• Romanian: mare

mās (genitive maris); third declension

1. male, masculine, manly

Third declension.

• marītō
• masculīnus

• mas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    
  • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

• emas
• امس‎
• مس‎

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

• IPA^(key): [mas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as

mas (Jawi spelling امس)

1. Alternative form of emas

From Anglo-Norman masse.

mas

1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

mas

1. Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

mas

1. locative singular of mii

mas

1. imperative of mase

mas

1. imperative of masa

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

mas m (plural mases)

1. farmhouse, typical country house

mas

1. most

From Old Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Cognate of mais (“more”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma(j)s/
  • Homophone: más (without the intrusive /j/)
  • Homophone: mais (with the intrusive /j/)
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐʃ/
• Hyphenation: mas

mas

1. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

   O livro é curto, mas bom.

   The book is short, but good.

   Somos preguiçosos mas fazemos o que precisa ser feito.

   We are lazy but we do what needs to be done.

2. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)

   Fomos recebidos não com aplausos, mas pedradas.

   We were not received with applause, but [with] rocks.

3. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)

   Todos alunos reprovaram em matemática, mas ninguém estudou mesmo.

   All students flunked mathematics, but no one studied really.

4. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

   Mas que porcaria!

   What the heck!

   Mas que diabos vocês estão fazendo aqui?

   What the hell are you doing here?

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mas.

• (introduces a contradiction): só que (informal), contudo (more formal), no entanto (more formal), porém (more formal), todavia (formal), entretanto (more formal)

• mas é
• mas sim
• mas também

mas (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how

   Este livro é bom, mas bom mesmo.

   This book is good, really good.

   Os ladrões correram, mas correram.

   The thieves ran, and how they ran.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mas.

• e como, e

mas m (plural mas)

1. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

   Quero que você termine isso, sem mas nem porquês.

   I want you to finish this, no buts or whys.

• deixar de mas
• sem mas nem meio mas

From Bengali মাছ (mach).

mas

1. fish

From Sanskrit: मांस (māmsá)

mas m

1. meat

From Latin mansum, from mansus.

mas n (plural masuri)

1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

• mânea

mas

1. past participle of mânea

mas

1. if is

• This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).

  mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

mas m

1. snake

From Latin magis.

• IPA^(key): /mas/
• Homophone: más

mas

1. but
2. however

• (but): pero
• (however): sin embargo, no obstante

From English must.

mas

1. must
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:3:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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