mango Latin · revision 4493

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc μάγγανον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmaŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmaŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mangō''' ''m'' (genitive mangōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably Greek, compare [[grc|μάγγανον|tr=mánganon|t=charm, means of bewitching]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary and Köbler connect it with [[m|grc|μαγγανεύω|tr=manganeúō|t=to use charms; to trick out]], so that it would mean one who dresses up his wares, but call the origin uncertain.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Etymonline cites Buck's view that it is a loanword describing one who adorns his wares to make them look more valuable.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro, quoted by Nonius, says some are so trimmed, polished and oiled that they look like a slave-dealer's slaves.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a dealer in slaves, and Seneca says such dealers hide every defect with some embellishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Martial mentions a slave-dealer asking a hundred thousand for a boy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was also a dealer in other wares, as Pliny the Elder's dealers in cassia bark, and a polisher of gems, and Quintilian uses it of one who makes up his goods to deceive.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a swindler, a barterer or a merchant, and British writers used it of slave-dealers.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It was borrowed early into Germanic, giving [[ang|mangere|t=merchant]], the source of [[en|monger]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a slave-dealer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca describes their tricks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of other dealers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|slave]]-dealer.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A dealer in other goods, especially one who dresses up his wares.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A swindler; a merchant.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[mangōnicō]]

+ * [[mangōnicus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|monger]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}