manipulus

Esperanto

Verb

manipulus

1. conditional of manipuli

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Ido

Verb

manipulus

1. conditional of manipular

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Latin

Alternative forms

• maniplus

Etymology

From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈnɪpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈniːpulus]

Noun

manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension

1. (historical military) A maniple, a double company of soldiers employed in the Roman legions between the Samnite Wars and the Marian reforms (3rd–2nd centuries BC), varying from 60–120 men.
2. handful, bundle
3. team, troupe

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manipulus	manipulī
Genitive	manipulī	manipulōrum
Dative	manipulō	manipulīs
Accusative	manipulum	manipulōs
Ablative	manipulō	manipulīs
Vocative	manipule	manipulī

Meronyms

• (unit of soldiers): centuria (½ manipulus); legio (notionally 30 manipuli)

Related terms

• manuculus

Derived terms

• manipulāris
• manipulātim

Descendants

• Spanish: manopla
• → English: maniple
• → French: manipule
• → Italian: manipolo
• → Portuguese: manípulo
• → Spanish: manípulo
  • → Portuguese: manopla
• → Portuguese: manápula

References

• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manipulus 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)
• manipulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manipulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers