manuculus

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Latin

Etymology

Modification of earlier *manupulus, itself a modification of Classical Latin manipulus, from manus f (“hand”) and -pleō (“fill”). The modified form can be interpreted as ending in the diminutive termination -uculus. Attested in the prefixed form ⟨commanuculus⟩, in the syncopated form ⟨manuclus⟩ in a Seneca manuscript, and in the misspelled form ⟨mamaculus⟩ in a gloss from late antiquity.

Noun

manuculus m (genitive manuculī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. handful

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “manĭpŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 231
  2. ^ Wilhelm Heraeus (1899) Die Sprache des Petronius und die Glossen, Leipzig, page 45: "manuclus: III 485, 58 mamaculus δραμα, wohl = manuculus δράγμα, vgl. Z. 54 manipulus δράγμα"
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