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From mandūcus(“glutton”) + -ō(verb-forming suffix), from mandō(“chew, eat, devour”). The noun mandūcus developed the specialized sense "masked figure with champing jaws".
c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 2 76.period2:
Verba ipsīus ex epistulīs sunt: Nē Iūdaeus quidem, mī Tiberī, tam dīligenter sabbatīs ieiunium servat quam ego hodiē servāvī, quī in balineō dēmum post hōram prīmam noctis duās buccās mandūcāvī prius quam unguī inciperem.
His own words from his letters are: Not even a Jew, my dear Tiberius, does the Saturday fasting as I did today, now that, at the baths, I finally ate a couple snacks at the first hour of the night, before starting with the cleaning oil.
AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 680: “se ti pizzica” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mandō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
“manduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
manduco 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)
manduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.