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mantīsa

mantīsa · f

a worthless addition, makeweight

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What it meant

1. mantīsa — Lewis & Short

mantīsa (mantissa), ae, f.Tuscan.

I Lit., a worthless addition, makeweight: mantisa additamentum dicitur lingua Tusca, quod ponderi adicitur, sed deterius et quod sine ullo usu est. Lucilius: mantisa obsonia vincit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 132, 11 Müll.—

II Transf., gain, Petr. 65 fin.

2. mantisa — Walde–Hofmann

mantisa (-iss-), -ae f. „Zugabe, Dreingabe* (seit Lucil; zu Petron, 65, 10 vgl. Plasberg Rh. M. 54, 639 |Bed. „Sauce“; doch s. unter mantiseinor)): etr. nach Paul. Fest. 132 mantisa additämentum dicitur linguä Tüsca, quod ponderi adicitur et quod. sine ullö üsü est (vgl. Ernout BSL. 30, 101). Allenfalls kann es (wie carís(s)a?, s. d.) eın durch die Etrusker vermitteltes gall. Wort sein (Walde LEW.* 463, Terracint … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mantisa, p. 939]

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