mancus

Latinized form of Arabic منقوش‎ (manqūsh). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mancus (plural mancuses)

1. (historical) A gold coin used in medieval Europe.
2. (historical) An equivalent unit of monetary account.

• mancosus

• Camuns, Cumans

From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”). Cognates include manus and Old Norse mund (“hand”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.kus/, [ˈmäŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈman.kus/, [ˈmäŋkus]

mancus (feminine manca, neuter mancum); first/second-declension adjective

1. maimed, crippled, handicapped, infirm
2. defective, imperfect

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• “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mancus 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)
• mancus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette