mancipium

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

• mancipiolum

Descendants

• Galician: mancebo
• Portuguese: mancebo, mancípio
• Spanish: mancebo, mancipio

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mancipium.

Noun

mancipium n (plural mancipiumuri)

1. mancipation

Declension

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

References

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