manceps Latin · revision 9237

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la manus, la capiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈman̠ʲ.t͡ʃeps]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''manceps''' ''m'' (genitive mancipis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from prehistoric ⟨*manu-kaps⟩, by syncope, from [[manus]] “hand” and ⟨-ceps⟩ “taker”, from [[capiō]] “to take”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a purchaser at a public auction, and so a contractor, agent, a farmer of public revenues, as in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(OLD 2012) In Pliny the Elder it meant a lessee of property and a wholesaler.^(OLD 2012)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a contractor, a servant, and a manciple.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish and Portuguese ''mancebo'' “young man” and Italian ''mancipe''.^(Wiktionary) Its derivative ''mancipium'' gave Old French ''mancipe'' and [[en|manciple]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a contractor.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A purchaser (at auction); a [[m|en|contractor]], agent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A lessee; a dealer.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A servant; a [[m|en|manciple]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[mancipālis]]

+ * [[mancipium]]

+ * [[mancipō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[manus]]

+ * [[capiō]]

+ * [[ēmancipō]]

+ * [[en|emancipate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}