manipulus

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Verb

manipulus

  1. conditional of manipuli

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Verb

manipulus

  1. conditional of manipular

Latin

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Etymology

From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".

Pronunciation

Noun

manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension

  1. (historical military) A maniple, a double company of soldiers employed in the Roman legions between the Samnite Wars and the Marian reforms (3rd–2nd centuries BC), varying from 60–120 men.
  2. handful, bundle
  3. team, troupe

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative manipulus manipulī
Genitive manipulī manipulōrum
Dative manipulō manipulīs
Accusative manipulum manipulōs
Ablative manipulō manipulīs
Vocative manipule manipulī

Meronyms

  • (unit of soldiers): centuria (half a manipulus); legio (notionally 30 manipuli)

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References

  • “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • manipulus 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)
  • manipulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “manipulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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