manicatus

Forms

manicātus (feminine manicāta, neuter manicātum); first/second-declension adjective^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin manica (“long sleeve; handcuff”) + -ātus (“provided with”), from the noun's plural, which meant long sleeves.^[1][3] De Vaan lists that plural among the regular derivatives of manus (“hand”), which he traces to Proto-Italic *man-u- and Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (“hand”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in Cicero,^[5] who in the second speech against Catiline mentions tunics with long sleeves.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

Columella uses it of sleeved garments of skin,^[2][3] and Curtius of sleeved tunics.^[6] Georges gives Ancient Greek χειριδωτός (kheiridōtós) as its counterpart.^[3] Ecclesiastical Latin also used it in the sense of manicae “handcuffs”: fettered, bound.^[7]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions tunics with long sleeves.^[2][5]
• 1st century AD – Columella uses it of sleeved garments of skin.^[2][5]
• 1st century AD – Curtius uses it of tunics.^[6][5]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (of garments) Having long sleeves.^[1][2]
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Fettered, bound.^[7]

References

1. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson