manco

See also: mancò, mancó, manço, and Manço

Asturian

Verb

manco

first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central)
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Etymology 1

Probably from archaic Italian manco (“less”, adverb).

Adverb

manco

(Alghero, Balearic, Valencia, Empordà) less
Synonym: menys

més o manco ― more or less

Etymology 2

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural manques)

Alternative form of manc

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish mango.

Noun

manco (inanimate)

(Milpa Alta) Mango

Dutch

Etymology

From Italian manco, from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

manco n (plural manco's, diminutive mancootje n)

shortage, deficit
Synonyms: gebrek, tekort, tekortkoming

Derived terms

mancolijst

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese manco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mancus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

lame
Synonyms: coxo, zopo
one-handed, one-armed, maimed
Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Noun

manco m (plural mancos, feminine manca, feminine plural mancas)

lame person
Synonyms: coxo, zopo
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 167:
  Ali da soude aos enfermos et alumea os çegos, et liura os demoniados et da aos sordos oydo, et aos mãcos fazeos andar
  There he gives health to the sick ones and lights the blind, and free the possessed and gives hearing to the deaf ones, and he makes the lame ones walk
one-handed, one-armed, maimed person, cripple
Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Derived terms

References

“manco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“manco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“manco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“manco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“manco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

manco

first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈman.ko/
Rhymes: -anko
Hyphenation: màn‧co

Etymology 1

From Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural manchi, feminine plural manche)

(archaic, literary) faulty, imperfect, maimed, missing something
Synonym: manchevole
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅷ [Canto 7]”, in La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, pages 142–143:
  […] e ciò esser non può, se li 'ntelletti ¶ che muovon queste stelle non son manchi, ¶ e manco il primo, che non li ha perfetti.
  this cannot be, if the Intelligences that keep these stars in motion are not maimed, and maimed the first that has not made them perfect.
- 1820, Alessandro Manzoni, Il conte di Carmagnola, collected in Opere varie, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 238:
  Ma negli ordini manchi e divisi ¶ mal si regge, già cede una schiera;
  But in the maimed, divided orders, one barely resisting rank already falls
left
Synonym: sinistro

la mano manca ― the left hand

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: manc

Adverb

manco

(colloquial) not even
Synonyms: neppure, neanche
(literary) less
Synonym: meno

Derived terms

nemmanco

Descendants

→ Catalan: manco

Etymology 2

Deverbal from mancare +‎ -o.

Noun

manco m (uncountable)

(literary) lack, shortage
Synonym: mancanza

avere manco di una cosa ― to lack a thing (literally, “to have lack of a thing”)

Descendants

→ English: mank
→ German: Manko
→ Middle French: manque
- French: manque

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

first-person singular present indicative of mancare

Anagrams

monca

Ladin

Etymology

comparative degree of puech

Adjective

manco

less

l manco

(the) least

Latin

Adjective

mancō

dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mancus

References

manco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ku/

Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
Hyphenation: man‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese manco, from Latin mancus (“maimed”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

lame (unable to walk properly)
Synonyms: perneta, coxo, (Brazil) capenga

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmanko/
Rhymes: -anko
Syllabification: man‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

one-handed, one-armed, maimed
defective, faulty, incomplete
obra manca ― defective play

verso manco ― faulty verse
(video games) chump, useless, butterfingers (a unskilled player, due to his inexperience or lack of skill for the game)
Synonym: (Spain) paquete
(figuratively, nautical) oarless, without oars