manciple

manciple

English

Etymology

From Middle English maunciple, from Old French manciple, from Medieval Latin mancipiolum (“lowly servant”), diminutive of Latin mancipium (“slave”).

Noun

manciple (plural manciples)

1. A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.

References

• manciple at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• McAlpine

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Old French

Alternative forms

• maciple

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mancipiolum, diminutive of mancipium.

Noun

manciple m (needs inflection)

1. servant
   • (Can we date this quote?), Li Passions du roi Jhesu:[1]

     Ainsi alarent li deciple / Par tot lo mont et li manciple.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. manciple (person in charge of storing food)

Related terms

• mancipe

Descendants

• → Middle English: maunciple, manciple, mawnciple, mawncyple
  • English: manciple

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mancipe)
• manciple in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

1. Romania (in French), volume 16, 1872, lines 393–394, page 53