manuculus
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of manus, formed with -culus.
Noun
manuculus
- (Vulgar Latin) little handful (not attested, emended from the gloss mamaculus δρaμα into manuculus δράγμα[1][2])
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References
- ^ 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"
- ^ “manipulus” in volume 8, column 316, line 47 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present