different between mansion vs hacienda

English

Alternative forms

• mansioun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansi? (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of man?re (“stay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn(t)??n/

Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

2. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
3. (Britain) A luxurious flat (apartment).
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

7. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:

     In my Father's house are many mansions [transl. ????? (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.

   • 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

     These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.

   • 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:

     The many mansions in one east London house of God.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Derived terms

• mansionette
• mansionry
• McMansion

Related terms

Descendants

• Japanese: ????? (manshon) (borrowed)

Translations

Anagrams

• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism

Middle English

Noun

mansion

1. Alternative form of mansioun

English

Etymology

From Spanish hacienda. Doublet of faena and fazenda.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæsi??nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)?si??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?
• Hyphenation: ha?ci?en?da

Noun

hacienda (plural haciendas)

1. A large homestead in a ranch or estate usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacienda. Doublet of fazenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sj?n.da/

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. hacienda

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish fazienda, from Latin facienda (literally “things to be done”), from faci? (“to do”). Cognate with Portuguese fazenda. Doublet of faena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /a??jenda/, [a??j?n?.d?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /a?sjenda/, [a?sj?n?.d?a]
• Rhymes: -enda

Noun

hacienda f (plural haciendas)

1. treasury
2. hacienda
3. livestock

Related terms

• hacendado

Descendants

• ? Catalan: hisenda
• ? English: hacienda
• ? French: hacienda
• ? Polish: hacjenda

See also

• campo
• estancia
• finca
• granja
• pago

Verb

hacienda

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of hacendar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of hacendar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of hacendar.