manipulus
Esperanto
Verb
manipulus
- conditional of manipuli
Ido
Verb
manipulus
- conditional of manipular
Latin
Alternative forms
- maniplus
Etymology
From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈnɪpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈni.pu.lus/, [mäˈniːpulus]
Noun
manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension
- (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.
- handful, bundle
- team, troupe
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- Spanish: manopla
- → English: maniple
- → French: manipule
- → Italian: manipolo
- → Portuguese: manípulo
- → Spanish: manípulo
- → Portuguese: manopla
- → Portuguese: manápula
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’s 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