manipularis Latin · revision 33973

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la manus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ma.nɪ.pʊˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ma.ni.puˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''manipulāris''' (neuter manipulāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''maniplāris'' and ''manuplāris''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|manipulus|-āris|t1=handful; maniple]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|manipulus]] is made from [[m|la|manus|t=hand]] and the root of [[m|la|pleō|t=to fill]], so a "handful";^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Varro already derived it from the word for hand.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) as a noun for a common soldier in the ''Truculentus'' (the soldiers mutter about the man whom parasites praise) and for fellow soldiers in the ''Mostellaria''.^(OLD 2012) The metre of the ''Truculentus'' line requires the full form ''manipulāris''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means belonging to a maniple, a company of the legion, and so belonging to the ranks: Ovid explains that soldiers are called ''manipulāris'' from the bundles of hay carried on poles as the first standards.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of ''manipulārēs iūdicēs'', jurors drawn from the soldiery.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun it is a common soldier, a private,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a member of the same maniple, a fellow soldier.^(OLD 2012) Tacitus and others use it of private soldiers as against officers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL also records a by-form ''manipulārius''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a common soldier and of fellow soldiers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of jurors drawn from the soldiery.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid on the hay bundles that gave the name.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to a [[m|en|maniple]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(of soldiers)'' belonging to the ranks, [[m|en|private]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A common [[m|en|soldier]], private; a marine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A member of the same maniple, a fellow soldier, [[m|en|comrade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commanipulāris]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[manipulus]]

+ * [[manus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}