manipulus

Esperanto

Verb

manipulus

1. conditional of manipuli

Ido

Verb

manipulus

1. conditional of manipular

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

manipulus

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Maniple as a military unit

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• maniplus

Etymology

From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈnɪ.pʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈniː.pu.lus]

Noun

manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension

1. (historical military) a maniple (a double company of soldiers employed in the Roman legions between the Samnite Wars and the Marian reforms (3rd–2nd centuries BC), varying from 60–120 men)
2. handful, bundle
3. team, troupe

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	manipulus	manipulī
genitive	manipulī	manipulōrum
dative	manipulō	manipulīs
accusative	manipulum	manipulōs
ablative	manipulō	manipulīs
vocative	manipule	manipulī

Meronyms

• (unit of soldiers): centuria (half a manipulus); legio (notionally 30 manipuli)

Derived terms

• manipulāris
• manipulātim

Related terms

• manuculus

Descendants

From a supposed feminine/plural Vulgar Latin manupŭla:

• Italo-Romance:
  • >? Italian: manopola (or from Spanish)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • >? Catalan: manyopla, manyopa (or from Spanish)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • >? Spanish: manopla
    • → Portuguese: manopla, manápula

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: maniple, manípul
• → English: maniple
• → French: manipule
• → Italian: manipolo
• → Portuguese: manípulo
• → Romanian: manipul
• → Spanish: manípulo

References

• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "manipulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “manipulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manipulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers