mancipium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin manceps

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin mancipium

From manceps (“purchaser, owner”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maŋˈkɪ.pi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [man̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.pi.um]

Noun

mancipium n (genitive mancipiī or mancipī); second declension

1. The formal taking possession of goods bought; purchase
2. property
3. slave (purchased)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mancipium	mancipia
genitive	mancipiī mancipī1	mancipiōrum
dative	mancipiō	mancipiīs
accusative	mancipium	mancipia
ablative	mancipiō	mancipiīs
vocative	mancipium	mancipia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• mancipiolum

Descendants

• Galician: mancebo
• Portuguese: mancebo
• Spanish: mancebo
• → Portuguese: mancípio
• → Spanish: mancípio

References

• “mancipium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mancipium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mancipium", 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)
• “mancipium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mancipium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mancipium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mancipium.

Noun

mancipium n (plural mancipiumuri)

1. mancipation

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mancipium	mancipiumul	mancipiumuri	mancipiumurile
genitive-dative	mancipium	mancipiumului	mancipiumuri	mancipiumurilor
vocative	mancipiumule		mancipiumurilor

References

• mancipium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN