manica

See also: Manica and mãnicã

Interlingua

Noun

manica (plural manicas)

1. manacle

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin manica.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anika

Noun

manica f (plural maniche) (augmetative manicona, meliorative manichetta, pejorative manicaccia)

1. sleeve, shirtsleeve
2. (heraldry) maunch
3. (figuratively) gang, pack

Related terms

• ammanicarsi
• ammanicato
• manicotto
• in maniche di camicia

Anagrams

• macina
• mancai
• mancia

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Latin

Etymology

From manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmänɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmäːnikä]

Noun

manica f (genitive manicae); first declension

1. long sleeve of a tunic
2. (in the plural) manacles, handcuffs
3. (in the plural, figuratively, nautical) a grappling-iron, used to hook enemy ships

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manica	manicae
Genitive	manicae	manicārum
Dative	manicae	manicīs
Accusative	manicam	manicās
Ablative	manicā	manicīs
Vocative	manica	manicae

Descendants

• Albanian: mëngë
• Aromanian: mãnicã
• Asturian: manga
• Catalan: màniga, mànega
• English: maunch
• French: manche
• Friulian: manie
• Galician: manga
• Irish: muinchille
• Italian: manica

• Occitan: marga
• Portuguese: manga
• Romanian: mânecă
• Romansch: mongia, mangia
• Sardinian: maínga, mànica, màniga
• Sicilian: mànica
• Spanish: manga
• Venetian: mànega
• Walloon: mantche

See also

• manicae

References

• manica 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)
• “manica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin