The corpus record — Latin

mancipo

mancipo · v. a

To make over

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Where it lives

De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
In C. Verrem 5 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mancĭpo — Lewis & Short

mancĭpo (mancŭpo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.manceps.

I To make over or deliver up as property by means of the formal act of purchase (mancipium; v. mancipium init.), to dispose of, transfer, alienate, sell (not in Cic.; for the true reading ap. Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 24, is emancipaverat; id. Sen. 11, 38, emancipatus; and id. Phil. 2, 21, 51, emancipatum).

A Lit.: alienos mancupatis, Alienos manumittitis, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 10: servos singulos actori publico, Tac. A. 2, 30; Gai. Inst. 2, 33: defundo mancipando, id. ib. 4, 131: quaedam, si credis consultis, mancipat usus, gives one a title to, makes one's property, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 159. —

B Trop., to give up to, deliver up, subject: luxu et saginae mancipatus emptusque, Tac. H. 2, 71: corpus mero et stupro, App. M. 9, p. 223, 29: de ignaviae latebris retractus curiarum functionibus mancipetur, Cod. Th. 12, 1, 83.—*

II I. q. manu capere, to seize, catch: ita capitur (alces): alioqui difficile est eam mancipari, Sol. 20.

In the wild

mancipes Tertullian, De Pudicitia 14
mancipes Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.175
mancipata Tertullian, De Spectaculis 4.1
mancipes Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 33
mancipatus Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.23
mancipavit Historia Augusta, Probus 4

6 of 35 attestations shown.

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