manille

From French manille, influenced by Spanish manilla.

• Rhymes: -ɪl
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈnil/

manille (countable and uncountable, plural manilles)

1. The second-highest trump in certain card games.
2. A card game played with a deck of 32, in which the ten (or ‘manille’) is the highest in each suit.

• Millean, ill name, mallein

manille

1. allative singular of mani

• mallein, mallien, malline

• IPA^(key): /ma.nij/

Alteration of earlier malille, from Spanish malilla, diminutive of mala.

manille f (plural manilles)

1. (card games) manille

From Old Occitan manellie, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from Latin manicula (“little hand”), or from Old High German mānili (“crescent-shaped ornament, bracelet”, literally “little moon”).

manille f (plural manilles)

1. ring, bracelet (as worn by a slave or convict)

From Spanish manilla.

manille f (plural manilles)

1. manilla

From Spanish manilla.

manille m (plural manilles)

1. plant fibre similar to hemp, harvested in the Philippines
2. a fine and durable straw, harvested in the Philippines, used mainly to make hats

• “manille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.