manica

See also: Manica, mãnicã, mânica, and mânică

Interlingua

Noun

manica (plural manicas)

1. manacle

Italian

Etymology

From Latin manica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/
• Rhymes: -anika
• Hyphenation: mà‧ni‧ca

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

manica f (plural maniche) (augmetative manicona, meliorative manichetta, pejorative manicaccia)

1. sleeve, shirtsleeve
2. (heraldry) maunch
3. (figurative) gang, pack

Related terms

• ammanicarsi
• ammanicato
• manicotto
• in maniche di camicia

Anagrams

• Camani, macina, mancai, mancia

Latin

Etymology

From manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmänɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmäːnikä]

Noun

manica f (genitive manicae); first declension

1. long sleeve of a tunic
2. (in the plural) manacles, handcuffs
3. (in the plural, figuratively, nautical) a grappling-iron, used to hook enemy ships

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	manica	manicae
genitive	manicae	manicārum
dative	manicae	manicīs
accusative	manicam	manicās
ablative	manicā	manicīs
vocative	manica	manicae

Derived terms

• *manicella

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: mãnicã, menãche
  • Megleno-Romanian: mǫnică
  • Romanian: mânecă, mânică — regional, mînecă — 1953–1993 spelling
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: manica
  • Neapolitan: maneca
  • Sicilian: mànica
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: manga
    • Ligurian: mànega
    • Lombard: mànega, manga
    • Piedmontese: mania
  • Friulian: manie
  • Romansch: mongia, mangia
  • Venetan: mànega
• Gallo-Romance
  • Franco-Provençal: mange

    Valdôtain: manja

  • Old French: manche
    • Middle French: manche
      • French: manche
    • Walloon: mantche
    • → English: manche
    • → Italian: mancia
      • → English: mancia
      • → French: manche
    • → Middle English: maunche
      • English: maunch
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: màniga, mànega
  • Gascon: manga, manja
  • Occitan: marga

    Northern dialects: manja, mancha

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: manga
  • Asturian: manga
  • Galician: manga
  • Mirandese: manga
  • Portuguese: manga
  • Spanish: manga
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: mànica, màniga, màinga
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
    • Albanian: mëngë
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *maneg
    • Breton: maneg
    • Cornish: manek
    • Welsh: maneg

See also

• manicae

References

• manica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “manica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin