menso
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmenso/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -enso
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.soː/, [ˈmẽː.soː]
Spanish
Etymology
Arguably taken from Latin mensa (“table”); it is thought that medieval monks used the names of inanimate objects in disparaging reference to illiterate or non‐discerning people, partially out of a desire to not use an explicitly pejorative insult as would be forbidden by their canons.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmenso/, [ˈmẽnso]
Adjective
menso (feminine singular mensa, masculine plural mensos, feminine plural mensas)
- (offensive, Mexico, Central America) foolish, dull
- (offensive, Mexico, Central America) distracted, absent-minded
- Synonyms: absorto, distraído
- Antonyms: aguzado, atento, concentrado
- (offensive, Mexico) ignorant
- Synonym: ignorante
- Antonyms: conocedor, inteligente, sabio
- (offensive, Mexico) inexpert
- (offensive, Mexico) timid, shy
- (offensive, Mexico) ingenuous, naive
Usage notes
- Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts have a different degree, having zonzo the mildest connotation, increasing its intensity in that rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive sense.
Derived terms
- mensada
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