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Mancus
Man′cus
,Noun.
[AS.]
An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver
mancus
was equal to about one shilling of modern English money. Definition 2024
mancus
mancus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-. Cognates include Old Norse mund (“hand”) and Icelandic mund.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈman.kus/, [ˈmaŋ.kʊs]
Adjective
mancus m (feminine manca, neuter mancum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mancus | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
| genitive | mancī | mancae | mancī | mancōrum | mancārum | mancōrum | |
| dative | mancō | mancō | mancīs | ||||
| accusative | mancum | mancam | mancum | mancōs | mancās | manca | |
| ablative | mancō | mancā | mancō | mancīs | |||
| vocative | mance | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
Derived terms
References
- 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mancus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.