manica

manica (plural manicas)

1. manacle

From Latin manica.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/
• Rhymes: -anika
• Hyphenation: mà‧ni‧ca

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manica f (plural maniche) (augmetative manicona, meliorative manichetta, pejorative manicaccia)

1. sleeve, shirtsleeve
2. (heraldry) maunch
3. (figurative) gang, pack

• ammanicarsi
• ammanicato
• manicotto
• in maniche di camicia

• Camani, macina, mancai, mancia

From manus (“hand”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmänɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.ka/, [ˈmäːnikä]

manica f (genitive manicae); first declension

1. long sleeve of a tunic
2. (in the plural) manacles, handcuffs
3. (in the plural, figuratively, nautical) a grappling-iron, used to hook enemy ships

First-declension noun.

• *manicella

• manicae

• manica 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)
• “manica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin