manteo
Spanish, noun
manteo is spelled M-A-N-T-E-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 133,746th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manteo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a kind of long cloak worn by clergymen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mantear. With an accent, manteó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mantear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de mantear”.
What does manteo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea kind of long cloak worn by clergymen
Lo mejor y lo peor de Vetusta estaba allí amontonado; las chalequeras, los armeros, la flor y nata del paseo del Boulevard, aquel gran mundo del andrajo, con sus hedores de miseria, se codeaba insolente y vocinglero con la Vetusta elegante
- 2
masculinea type of cape used in bullfighting
noun
- 1
masculineblanket toss (throwing someone into the air using a blanket)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mantear
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of mantear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de mantear. 2. Ritual que se hace en los cumpleaños de varones, en donde se hace una ronda alrededor del cumpleañero y se lo golpea en la cabeza con las palmas de las manos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of manteo
- manteos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to manteo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manteo in Spanish?
manteo appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).