mancus

== English == === Etymology === Latinized form of Arabic منقوش (manqūsh). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === mancus (plural mancuses) (historical) A gold coin used in medieval Europe. (historical) An equivalent unit of monetary account. ==== Synonyms ==== mancosus === Anagrams === Camuns, Cumans == Latin == === Etymology === Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”), with semantic shift "hand" > "handy" > "handicapped, having a defect of the hand". Cognates include manus and Old Norse mund (“hand”). An alternate theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to lack”), comparing Lithuanian meñkas (“poor, small”) and Tocharian B mänk- (“to be deprived of, lack”). The root of these words is at times alternatively reconstructed as *men- (“small, isolated”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmaŋ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmaŋ.kus] === Adjective === mancus (feminine manca, neuter mancum); first/second-declension adjective maimed, crippled, handicapped, infirm defective, imperfect ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "mancus", 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) “mancus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.