mantum

English

Pope Pius XII wearing the mantum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mantum.

Noun

mantum

1. The mantle worn by the pope, which is very similar to a cope, but longer and fastened in the front by an elaborate morse.

Further reading

• mantum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tum/, [ˈmän̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tum/, [ˈmän̪t̪um]

Noun

mantum n (genitive mantī); second declension

1. a Spanish cloak

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mantum	manta
Genitive	mantī	mantōrum
Dative	mantō	mantīs
Accusative	mantum	manta
Ablative	mantō	mantīs
Vocative	mantum	manta

Derived terms

• mantellum (diminutive)
  • Catalan: mantell
  • Italian: mantello
  • Old French: mantel (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan:

    Languedocien: mantèl

    Provençal: mantèu

    Gascon: mantèth, màntol

  • Galician: mantelo
  • → Greek: μάντιον (mántion)
    • → Old Church Slavonic: мантиꙗ (mantija)
      • → Bulgarian: ма́нтия (mántija)
      • → Macedonian: мантија (mantija)
      • → Romanian: mantie
      • → Russian: мантия (mantija)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: mantija / мантија
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *mantel (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: manteḍḍu
  • ⇒ Late Latin: mantelletum
    • Italian: mantelletta f
      • → English: mantelletta

Descendants

• Catalan: manto
• Italian: manto
• Spanish: manto
  • Chavacano: manto
  • → English: manto
• Mirandese: manto
• Old Galician-Portuguese: manto
  • Galician: manto
  • Portuguese: manto
• Sicilian: mantu
• → English: mantum

Feminine forms:

• Asturian: manta
• Catalan: manta
• Galician: manta
• Mirandese: manta
• Portuguese: manta
• Spanish: manta (see there for further descendants)

References

• “mantum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mantum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.