The corpus record — Latin

mancus

maimed, crippled (at the hand)

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Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mancus — de Vaan

mancus 'maimed, crippled (at the hand)' [adj. o/a] (P1.+) Pit. *manko-lX: If cognate with rhartus 'hand', mancus must contain the athematic stem *man- 'hand'. This etymology would imply a semantic shift *man-ko- 'handy' > 'handicapped, having a defect of the hand'. Bibl.: WH II: 23, EM 382, IEW 740f. -► manus,peccd mando, -ere 'to chew, bite' [v. Ill; pf. mandi, ppp. mansurn] (Andr.+) Derivatives: mando 'glutton' … — [de Vaan, s.v. mancus, p. 375]

2. mancus — Lewis & Short

mancus, a, um, adj.Sanscr. man-āk, little; cf. Germ. mangeln,

I maimed, infirm (class.).

I Lit., in a limb or member, esp. in the hand: sciendum, scaevam non esse morbosum, praeterquam si, imbecillitate dextrae, validius sinistra utatur: sed hunc non scaevam, sed mancum esse dicimus, Dig. 21, 1, 12: mancus et membris omnibus captus ac debilis, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: ad mandata claudus, caecus, mutus, mancus, debilis, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 45: mancorum ac debilium dux, Liv. 7, 13; Ov. F. 3, 825: tamquam mancus et exstinctae corpus non utile dextrae, Juv. 3, 48.—

II Trop., infirm, defective, imperfect (rare but class.): virtus, Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 30: ac debilis praetura, id. Mil. 9, 25: contemplatio naturae, id. Off. 1, 43, 153: fortuna, Hor. S. 2, 7, 88.—With abl.: talibus officiis prope mancus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 21.—In neutr adverb.: error mancum claudicat, Prud. stef. 2, 23.

In the wild

Manci Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.34.18.4
mancorum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p13
mancam Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.30
manci Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 p31
mancum Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.231
manca Cicero, De Officiis 1.153.p1

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mancus (scan p. 375; entry #991). Root candidates: *man-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mancus (scan p. 406; entry #6465).

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