manipulus
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
manipulus
- conditional of manipuli
Ido edit
Verb edit
manipulus
- conditional of manipular
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈnɪpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈniːpulus]
Noun edit
manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension
- (historical military) A maniple, a double company of soldiers employed in the Roman legions between the Samnite Wars and the Marian reforms (3rd–2nd centuries BC), varying from 60–120 men.
- handful, bundle
- team, troupe
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | manipulus | manipulī |
| Genitive | manipulī | manipulōrum |
| Dative | manipulō | manipulīs |
| Accusative | manipulum | manipulōs |
| Ablative | manipulō | manipulīs |
| Vocative | manipule | manipulī |
Meronyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Spanish: manopla
- → English: maniple
- → French: manipule
- → Italian: manipolo
- → Portuguese: manípulo
- → Romanian: manipul
- → Spanish: manípulo
- → Portuguese: manopla
- → Portuguese: manápula
References edit
- “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- manipulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- manipulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “manipulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers