mangonium

== Latin == === Etymology === Perhaps most straightforwardly mangōn- (“dealer, embellisher of wares”) +‎ -ium (abstract noun-forming suffix). Buck suggests that both Latin nouns are based (ultimately or otherwise) on Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “means of charming or bewitching”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maŋˈɡɔ.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maŋˈɡɔː.ni.um] === Noun === mangōnium n (genitive mangōniī or mangōnī); second declension (rare) display or embellishment of wares to be sold ==== Usage notes ==== This term is a hapax legomenon within the Classical Latin corpus, but it occurs at least once in a work of Pope Leo I (early 5th century). ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: mangonio === References === === Further reading === “mangonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mangonium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.