manicus

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from manus (“hand”). Attested in the accusative form manicum in the Liber Glossarum.

Noun

manicus m (genitive manicī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. handle

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	manicus	manicī
genitive	manicī	manicōrum
dative	manicō	manicīs
accusative	manicum	manicōs
ablative	manicō	manicīs
vocative	manice	manicī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: manico

    Muccia: [ˈmaːneɡʊ]

  • Neapolitan: maneco
  • Sicilian: manicu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: manec
    • Ligurian: manego
    • Lombard: manec
    • Piedmontese: mani
  • Istriot: manago, manigo
  • Romansch: manch, moni
  • Venetan: manego
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: mànec
  • Franco-Provençal: manjo
  • Old French: manche m (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: manegue, margue
    • Occitan: margue
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: mango
  • Asturian: mangu
  • Leonese: mangu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mango
    • Galician: mango
    • Portuguese: mango
  • Spanish: mango

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1404: “il manico della falce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “manĭcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 226