MANIPLE


Meaning of MANIPLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈma-nə-pəl ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin manipulus, from Latin, handful, from manus hand + -pulus (perhaps akin to Latin plēre to fill); from its having been originally held in the hand — more at manual , full

Date: 15th century

1. : a long narrow strip of silk formerly worn at mass over the left arm by clerics of or above the order of subdeacon

2.

[Latin manipulus, from manipulus handful]

: a subdivision of the Roman legion consisting of either 120 or 60 men

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