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From prehistoric *manukaps through syncope. Ultimately from manus (“hand”) +‎ -ceps (“taker”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋ.kɛps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈman̠ʲ.t͡ʃeps]

manceps m (genitive mancipis); third declension

1. purchaser, renter
2. contractor, agent
3. surety, bondsman
4. owner, proprietor, possessor

Third-declension noun.

• mancipō

• Italian: mancipe
• Aragonese: mancebo
• Asturian: mancebu
• Catalan: macip
• Galician: mancebo
• Occitan: mancip
• Portuguese: mancebo
• Spanish: mancebo

• “manceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manceps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "manceps", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “manceps”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “manceps”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manceps”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin