mancipium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From manceps (“purchaser, owner”) + -ium.
Noun edit
mancipium n (genitive mancipiī or mancipī); second declension
- The formal taking possession of goods bought; purchase
- property
- slave (purchased)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mancipium | mancipia |
| Genitive | mancipiī mancipī1 |
mancipiōrum |
| Dative | mancipiō | mancipiīs |
| Accusative | mancipium | mancipia |
| Ablative | mancipiō | mancipiīs |
| Vocative | mancipium | mancipia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “mancipium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mancipium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mancipium 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)
- mancipium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mancipium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mancipium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mancipium.
Noun edit
mancipium n (plural mancipiumuri)
Declension edit
Declension of mancipium
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) mancipium | mancipiumul | (niște) mancipiumuri | mancipiumurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) mancipium | mancipiumului | (unor) mancipiumuri | mancipiumurilor |
| vocative | mancipiumule | mancipiumurilor | ||