manco

See also: mancò, mancó, manço, and Manço

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmaŋ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmaŋ.ko]

Etymology 1

Probably from archaic Italian manco (“less”, adverb).

Adverb

manco

1. (Alghero, Balearic, Valencia, Empordà) less

   Synonym: menys

   més o manco ― more or less

Etymology 2

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural manques)

1. Alternative form of manc

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

Further reading

• “manco” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish mango.

Noun

manco (inanimate)

1. (Milpa Alta) Mango

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Dutch

Etymology

From Italian manco, from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

manco n (plural manco's, diminutive mancootje n)

1. shortage, deficit

   Synonyms: gebrek, tekort, tekortkoming

Derived terms

• mancolijst

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese manco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mancus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋkʊ]

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame

   Synonyms: coxo, zopo

2. one-handed, one-armed, maimed

   Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Noun

manco m (plural mancos, feminine manca, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame person
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 167:

     Ali da soude aos enfermos et alumea os çegos, et liura os demoniados et da aos sordos oydo, et aos mãcos fazeos andar

     There he gives health to the sick ones and lights the blind, and free the possessed and gives hearing to the deaf ones, and he makes the lame ones walk

   Synonyms: coxo, zopo

2. one-handed, one-armed, maimed person, cripple

   Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Derived terms

• mancar
• manqueira
• manquexar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “manco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “manco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “manco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: màn‧co

Etymology 1

From Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural manchi, feminine plural manche)

1. (archaic, literary) faulty, imperfect, maimed, missing something

   Synonym: manchevole

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅷ [Canto 7]”, in La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, pages 142-143:

     […] e ciò esser non può, se li 'ntelletti ¶ che muovon queste stelle non son manchi, ¶ e manco il primo, che non li ha perfetti.

     […] this cannot be, if the Intelligences that keep these stars in motion are not maimed, and maimed the first that has not made them perfect.

   • 1820, Alessandro Manzoni, Il conte di Carmagnola, collected in Opere varie, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 238:

     Ma negli ordini manchi e divisi ¶ mal si regge, già cede una schiera;

     But in the maimed, divided orders, one barely-resisting rank already falls

2. left

   la mano manca ― the left hand

   Synonym: sinistro

Derived terms

• manca
• mancare
• mancino

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: manc

Adverb

manco

1. (colloquial) not even

   Synonyms: neppure, neanche

3. (literary) less

   Synonym: meno

Derived terms

• nemmanco

Descendants

• → Catalan: manco

Etymology 2

Deverbal from mancare.

Noun

manco m (uncountable)

2. (literary) lack, shortage

   Synonym: mancanza

   avere manco di una cosa ― to lack a thing (literally, “to have lack of a thing”)

Descendants

• → English: mank
• → German: Manko
• → Middle French: manque
  • French: manque

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancare

Further reading

• manco¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• manco² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• monca

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Ladin

Etymology

comparative degree of puech

Adjective

manco

1. less

l manco

1. (the) least

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) mancō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mancus

References

• manco 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)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mancus (“maimed”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ku/

• Hyphenation: man‧co
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame (unable to walk properly)

   Synonyms: perneta, coxo, capenga

Verb

manco

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. one-handed, one-armed, maimed
2. defective, faulty

   obra manca ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   verso manco ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (video games) chump, useless, butterfingers (a unskilled player, due to his inexperience or lack of skill for the game)

   Synonym: (Spain) paquete

4. (figuratively, nautical) oarless, without oars

Etymology 2

Noun

manco m (plural mancos)

1. (Chile, collquial) horse

   Synonym: caballo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Further reading

• “manco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Venetian

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Adverb

manco

1. less