manubrium

English

Etymology

From Latin manubrium (“handle”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈnubɹiəm/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈnjuːbɹiəm/

Noun

manubrium (plural manubria or manubriums)

1. (anatomy) The broad, upper part of the sternum.
2. (zoology) The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth.
3. A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ.

Derived terms

• manubrial

Related terms

• manubriate
• manubriated

Translations

broad, upper part of the sternum

• Finnish: rintalastan kahva
• Spanish: manubrio (es) m

tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish

French

Noun

manubrium m (plural manubriums)

1. manubrium

Latin

Alternative forms

• manibrium

Etymology

From manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈnu.bri.um/, [mäˈnʊbriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈnu.bri.um/, [mäˈnuːbrium]

Noun

manubrium n (genitive manubriī or manubrī); second declension

1. handle, haft
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 525, (iambic senarius):

     is etiam sese sapere memorat: malleum / sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio.

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley

       He too declares that he is a wise man! that the hammer, forsooth, should be wiser than the handle.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manubrium	manubria
Genitive	manubriī manubrī1	manubriōrum
Dative	manubriō	manubriīs
Accusative	manubrium	manubria
Ablative	manubriō	manubriīs
Vocative	manubrium	manubria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• eximere alicui ex manu manubrium

Related terms

• manus

Descendants

• English: manubrium
• Italian: manubrio
• Spanish: manubrio

References

• “manubrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manubrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manubrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.