manutergium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin manutergium. === Noun === manutergium (plural manutergia) manuterge == Latin == === Etymology === From manus (“hand”) + tergeō (“wipe, clean”) + -ium. Compare with mantēle. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ma.nʊˈtɛr.ɡi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ma.nuˈtɛr.d͡ʒi.um] === Noun === manutergium n (genitive manutergiī or manutergī); second declension hand towel linen cloth which is used to clean a Catholic priest's hand after being anointed with chrism and presented to his mother at the first mass, which she can present at her judgement and is considered a special honor in heaven. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → English: manutergium Galician: manuterxio Italian: manutergio Portuguese: manutérgio Spanish: manutergio ==== See also ==== ānitergium facitergium === References === “mănŭtergĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "manutergium", 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) “mănūtergĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 948/3.