mantellum Latin · revision 9410

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mantellum''' ''n''^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''mantēlum''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD compares it with [[mantica]] “knapsack”, and Köbler connects it with ⟨mantum⟩ “cloak”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot cites Plautus' ''Captivi'', figuratively of a veil or cover.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a cloak or mantle, and figuratively, as in Plautus, a cover, a veil, and Lucilius and Festus have ''mantēlum'' “a towel”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In British Medieval Latin it was a mantle, a cloak, of various materials and colours, ''mantellum ferreum'' was armour, and ''mantellum vertere'' was to turn one's coat, to change sides.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed early into Old English as ''mentel'', the source of [[en|mantle]], and into Old High German ''mantal'', and Italian ''mantello'' continues it.^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it figuratively.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1195 – a royal charter in England uses it of a cloak.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|cloak]], [[m|en|mantle]].^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

+ # (figurative) A cover, veil.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # A [[m|en|towel]].^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mantica]]

+ * [[en|mantle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}