mancipium

Latin

Etymology

From manceps (purchaser, owner) + -ium.

Noun

mancipium n (genitive mancipiī or mancipī); second declension

  1. The formal taking possession of goods bought; purchase
  2. property
  3. slave (purchased)

Declension

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

Descendants

  • Galician: mancebo
  • Portuguese: mancebo
  • Spanish: mancebo
  • Portuguese: mancípio
  • Spanish: mancípio

References

  • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mancipium.

Noun

mancipium n (plural mancipiumuri)

  1. mancipation

Declension

References

  • mancipium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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