mantum

English

Pope Pius XII wearing the mantum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mantum. Doublet of manto.

Noun

mantum

1. The mantle worn by the pope, which is very similar to a cope, but longer and fastened in the front by an elaborate morse.

Further reading

• mantum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tum/, [ˈmän̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.tum/, [ˈmän̪t̪um]

Noun

mantum n (genitive mantī); second declension

1. a Spanish cloak

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mantum	manta
genitive	mantī	mantōrum
dative	mantō	mantīs
accusative	mantum	manta
ablative	mantō	mantīs
vocative	mantum	manta

Derived terms

• mantellum (diminutive)
  • Catalan: mantell
  • Italian: mantello
  • Old French: mantel (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan:

    Languedocien: mantèl

    Provençal: mantèu

    Gascon: mantèth, màntol

  • Galician: mantelo
  • → Greek: μάντιον (mántion)
    • → Old Church Slavonic: мантиꙗ (mantija)
      • → Bulgarian: ма́нтия (mántija)
      • → Macedonian: мантија (mantija)
      • → Romanian: mantie
      • → Russian: мантия (mantija)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: mantija / мантија
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *mantel (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: manteḍḍu
  • ⇒ Late Latin: mantelletum
    • Italian: mantelletta f
      • → English: mantelletta

Descendants

• Catalan: manto
• Italian: manto
• Spanish: manto
  • Chavacano: manto
  • → English: manto
• Mirandese: manto
• Old Galician-Portuguese: manto
  • Galician: manto
  • Portuguese: manto
• Sicilian: mantu
• → English: mantum

Feminine forms:

• Asturian: manta
• Catalan: manta
• Galician: manta
• Mirandese: manta
• Portuguese: manta
• Spanish: manta (see there for further descendants)

References

• “mantum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mantum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.