mamphur
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Oscan, from a Proto-Indo-European root common with Lithuanian mentùris (“cooking beater”), Polish mątew (“beater”) and maybe German Mandel (“quantity of 15”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmam.pʰur/, [ˈmämpʰʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmam.fur/, [ˈmämfur]
Noun[edit]
mamphur (hapax)
Declension[edit]
- Attested only in Sextus Pompeius Festus, of unknown gender and declension.
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: manfano
References[edit]
- “mamphur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mamphur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “mamphur”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 22