manicula
Latin
Etymology
From manus (“hand”) + -icula.
Noun
manicula f (genitive maniculae); first declension
- A little hand
Declension
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | manicula | maniculae |
genitive | maniculae | maniculārum |
dative | maniculae | maniculīs |
accusative | maniculam | maniculās |
ablative | maniculā | maniculīs |
vocative | manicula | maniculae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: manicchia, manecchia
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: manija
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *manibula, ⇒ *manubella
- Borrowings:
References
- “manicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "manicula", 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)
- manicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.