- manciple
[manciple 词源字典]
- manciple: see emancipate
[manciple etymology, manciple origin, 英语词源] - 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).