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mannus

mannus · m

a kind of small Gallic horse, a coach-horse, cob

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2 · 3.63/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. mannus — Lewis & Short

mannus, i, m.Celtic, a kind of small Gallic horse, a coach-horse, cob (used esp. for pleasure-drives):

agens mannos, Lucr. 3, 1063: si per obliquum similis sagittae (serpens) Terruit mannos, Hor. C. 3, 27, 6; id. Ep. 1, 7, 77: rapientibus esseda mannis, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 49: detonsi, with shorn manes, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 15.obesi manni, Sen. Ep. 87, 9.

2. Mannus — Lewis & Short

Mannus, i, m.Germ. Mann, ἄνθρωπος, a god of the ancient Germans, son of Tuisco,

Tac. G. 2.

3. mannus — Walde–Hofmann

mannus, -5 m. „kurz gebautes gallisches Pferd, Pony“ (auch bàüricus [oben I 123] geheißen) (seit Luer., rom. [*mandius „Füllen, 30 mänd. Rind“, Meyer-Lübke n. 5289, s. unten]; Demin. mannulus Mart.): dial. Form für *mandus, das aus einer nördlichen Sprache stammt (gall nach Consent. gr. V 364, 9 [vgl. bask. mande unten und gall. ON. Epo-manduo-dürum, brit. ON. Mandu-essedum, Dottin Mél. Loth 96 f.], richtiger … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mannus, p. 935]

In the wild

Manno Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2.3.p2
mannis Horace, Epodon 4.14
mannis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.10
mannis Horace, Epistulae 1.7.77
mannos Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.1063
mannos Horace, Carmina 3.27

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mannus (scan p. 408; entry #6501).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mannus (scan pp. 935-939; entry #1684). Root candidates: *manze-, *mandia-, *mä-.

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