mannus Latin · revision 34275

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=borrowing|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mannus''' ''m'' (genitive mannī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a foreign word of uncertain source.^(OLD 2012) The TLL and Köbler take it from Illyrian, and the TLL compares [[sq|mëz]] “foal” and a Gaulish place name.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary also compares [[ro|mânz]] “foal, colt”.^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short call it Celtic,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the grammarian Consentius already called it a Gaulish word.^(TLL) A scholiast on Horace explained the name from the tameness with which these horses follow the hand, [[manus]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who has a man driving his ponies headlong to his country house, ''currit agens mannos ad villam''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) It names a pony.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It named a small horse or pony, according to Lewis and Short a kind of small Gallic horse used especially for pleasure drives.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace has ponies frightened by a snake, Propertius has Cynthia drawn by ponies with shorn manes, and Ovid ponies pulling the essedum.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Döderlein describes it as a smaller horse kept for luxury, like a palfrey, beside the general [[equus]] and the workaday [[caballus]].^(Döderlein 1874) Glossaries explain it as a small horse.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius has ''agens mannos''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Odes'' and ''Epistles''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|pony]], a small horse, a [[m|en|cob]] used for pleasure drives.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[mannulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[equus]]

+ * [[caballus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Mannus'' is also the name of a god of the ancient Germans, son of Tuisco, in Tacitus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}