mancus
English
Etymology
Latinized form of Arabic منقوش (manqūsh). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mancus (plural mancuses)
- (historical) A gold coin used in medieval Europe.
- (historical) An equivalent unit of monetary account.
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Latin
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”), with semantic shift "hand" > "handy" > "handicapped, having a defect of the hand". Cognates include manus and Old Norse mund (“hand”).[1]
An alternate theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to lack”), comparing Lithuanian meñkas (“poor, small”) and Tocharian B mänk- (“to be deprived of, lack”).[2] These root of these words is sometimes reconstructed instead as *men- (“small, isolated”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmaŋ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaŋ.kus]
Adjective
mancus (feminine manca, neuter mancum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | mancus | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
| genitive | mancī | mancae | mancī | mancōrum | mancārum | mancōrum | |
| dative | mancō | mancae | mancō | mancīs | |||
| accusative | mancum | mancam | mancum | mancōs | mancās | manca | |
| ablative | mancō | mancā | mancō | mancīs | |||
| vocative | mance | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mancus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 361
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “menkas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 311
Further reading
- “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "mancus", 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)
- mancus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.