mancipium

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

mancipium n (genitive mancipiī or mancipī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• mancipiolum

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

• “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’s 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

Borrowed from Latin mancipium.

mancipium n (plural mancipiumuri)

1. mancipation

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