manciple
- 英式英标[\'mænsəpl]
- 美式音标[\'mænsɪp(ə)l]
英文词源
- manciple
- manciple: see emancipate
- manciple (n.)
- "officer or servant who purchases provisions for a college, monastery, etc.," early 13c., from Old French mancipe "servant, official, manciple," from Latin mancipium "servant, slave, slave obtained by legal transfer; the legal purchase of a thing," literally "a taking in hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + root of capere "to take" (see capable).
