manicus

Latin

Etymology

Fom manus (“hand”) +‎ -īcus. Attested in the accusative form manicum in the Liber Glossarum.

Noun

manicus m (genitive manicī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. handle

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	manicus	manicī
genitive	manicī	manicōrum
dative	manicō	manicīs
accusative	manicum	manicōs
ablative	manicō	manicīs
vocative	manice	manicī

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: màiga f (see etymology)
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: manicu
  • Istriot: manago, manigo
  • Italian: manico
  • Neapolitan: maneco
  • Sicilian: manicu
  • Venetan: manego
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: mani
  • Ladin: mane, manego, mènech
  • Romansh: manch, moni
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: manec
  • Ligurian: manego
  • Lombard: manec
  • Piedmontese: mani
  • Romagnol: mâng
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: mànec
  • Franco-Provençal: manjo
  • Old French: manche (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: manegue, margue
    • Occitan: margue
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: mango
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mango
    • Fala: mango
    • Galician: mango
    • Portuguese: mango
  • Old Leonese: mangu
    • Asturian: mangu
    • Leonese: mangu
  • Old Spanish: mango
    • Ladino: mango
    • Spanish: mango

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1404: “il manico della falce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “manĭcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 226