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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mancia.
Pronunciation
Noun
mancia
- tip, gratuity
1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.
1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Probably from Old French manche (“sleeve”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mancia f (plural mance)
- tip (in a restaurant, etc.)
2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XVIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 121:Salutò Manuel e gli lasciò una buona mancia.- He saluted Manuel and left him a good tip.
Descendants
References
- ^ mancia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Ternate
Etymology
From older Ternate manusia, from Malay manusia, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).
Pronunciation
Noun
mancia
- a person
- people
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Makian
Etymology
From Ternate mancia, from older Ternate manusia, from Malay manusia, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).
Pronunciation
Noun
mancia
- person
- people
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics