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Esperanto
Verb
manipulus
- conditional of manipuli
Ido
Verb
manipulus
- conditional of manipular
Latin
Etymology
From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".
Pronunciation
Noun
manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension
- (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)
- handful, bundle
- team, troupe
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Meronyms
- (unit of soldiers): centuria (half a manipulus); legio (notionally 30 manipuli)
Derived terms
Descendants
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