單詞
manciple
英 ['m?ns?p(?)l]
美['m?ns?pl]
基本信息
- n. 伙食委員
英文詞源
- manciple
- manciple: see emancipate
- 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).
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