manceps

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *manukaps through syncope. By surface analysis, manus (“hand”) +‎ -ceps (“taker”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.keps/, [ˈmäŋkɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈmän̠ʲt͡ʃeps]

Noun

manceps m (genitive mancipis); third declension

1. purchaser, renter
2. contractor, agent
3. surety, bondsman
4. owner, proprietor, possessor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manceps	mancipēs
Genitive	mancipis	mancipum
Dative	mancipī	mancipibus
Accusative	mancipem	mancipēs
Ablative	mancipe	mancipibus
Vocative	manceps	mancipēs

Related terms

• mancipō

Descendants

• Italian: mancipe
• Aragonese: mancebo
• Asturian: mancebu
• Catalan: macip
• Galician: mancebo
• Occitan: mancip
• Portuguese: mancebo
• Spanish: mancebo

References

• “manceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manceps 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)
• manceps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin