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And presumably also related are the masserie in Puglia, that clearly were
fortified farmhouses but which are now often elegant alberghi. So we are now
back to villas (as on the Riviera). sharon
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> On Friday, March 31, 2006, at 9:02 am, Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
>> otOh, it sounds to me like you may have the equivalent in the
>> English sources
>> of what we see in the French ones as a _villa_.
>>
>> which is not, of course, a nice mansion on the Riviera for
>> kelptocratic former
>> heads of state, but rather a "manor" or farmstead, perhaps a proto-
>> village;just depends upon historical circumstance.
>
> And whose descendants in southern France are still called a 'mas', as in
> parts of Italy they are called a 'massa' (both from 'mansio', with loss
> of the nasal before /s/; compare Fr. 'mois', Ital. 'mese' from
> 'mensis'). In Italy, at least, many toponyms in 'Massa' are from
> 'mansio' in its sense of 'roadside inn'; these often became _fortified_
> farmsteads, with the result that vernacular 'massa' and documentary
> Latin 'mansio' come also to denote a fortified farm or village generally.
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
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