manipulus

manipulus

1. conditional of manipuli

manipulus

1. conditional of manipular

• maniplus

From manus (“hand”) and root of pleō (“fill”): a "handful".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈnɪ.pʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈniː.pu.lus]

manipulus m (genitive manipulī); second declension

1. (historical military) a maniple (a double company of soldiers employed in the Roman legions between the Samnite Wars and the Marian reforms (3rd–2nd centuries BC), varying from 60–120 men)
2. handful, bundle
3. team, troupe

Second-declension noun.

• (unit of soldiers): centuria (half a manipulus); legio (notionally 30 manipuli)

• manipulāris
• manipulātim

• manuculus

• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manipulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "manipulus", 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)
• “manipulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manipulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers