mancia

See also: Mancia, -mancia, and -mancía

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mancia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænt͡ʃə/

Noun

mancia

1. tip, gratuity
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.

Anagrams

• -maniac, caiman, maniac

Italian

Etymology

Probably from Old French manche (“sleeve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.t͡ʃa/

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• Rhymes: -antʃa
• Hyphenation: màn‧cia

Noun

mancia f (plural mance)

1. tip (in a restaurant, etc.)
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XVIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 121:

     Salutò Manuel e gli lasciò una buona mancia.

     He saluted Manuel and left him a good tip.

Descendants

• → English: mancia
• → French: manche

Anagrams

• Camani, Manica, macina, mancai, manica

Ternate

Etymology

From older Ternate manusia, from Malay manusia, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man.ˈt͡ʃi.a]

Noun

mancia

1. a person
2. people

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

From Ternate mancia, from older Ternate manusia, from Malay manusia, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man̪.ˈt͡ʃi.a/

Noun

mancia

1. person
2. people

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics