English Explanatory Dictionary

mantinada

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An improvised Cretan rhyming couplet.

Word forms

mantinada mantinades

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μαντινάδα (mantináda), from Venetan matinada (“a song of the morning”).

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