mancipiolum

Latin

Etymology

From mancipium (“slave”) +‎ -olum.

Noun

mancipiolum n (genitive mancipiolī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a lowly servant
   • 813, chapter 19, in Concilium Turonense, volume II:

     Reliqui Presbyteri et Diaconi et Subdiaconi vicani hoc studio se custodiant, ut Mancipiola sua ibi maneant, ubi uxores suae. Illi tamen segregatim solitarii in cella jaceant, et orent, et dormiant.

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Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mancipiolum	mancipiola
Genitive	mancipiolī	mancipiolōrum
Dative	mancipiolō	mancipiolīs
Accusative	mancipiolum	mancipiola
Ablative	mancipiolō	mancipiolīs
Vocative	mancipiolum	mancipiola

Descendants

• Old French: manciple, maciple
  • → Middle English: maunciple, manciple, mawnciple, mawncyple
    • English: manciple

References

• mancipiolum 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)