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