Words on the Vine: Manu
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- handbook, instruction book
- manual
- treatment for hands and nails
- manicure
- handcuffs, device for confining the hands
- manacle
- an order or command
- mandate
- Latin word meaning "to order"
- mandare
- a training exercise; a movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity
- maneuver
- Latin words meaning "to work by hand"
- manu operari
- an Italian dish of pasta tubes stuffed with meat or ricotta cheese, usually served with tomato sauce
- manicotti (plural form of the Italian word "manicotto," meaning "muff")
- What is the derivation of the word "manicotti"?
- Italian plural form of "manicotto" (muff)< "manica" (sleeve) < Latin "manicae" (sleeves) < "manus" (hand)
- one who handles, controls, or directs
- manager
- to operate or control by skilled use of the hands; handle
- manipulate
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1. an ornamental silk band hung as an ecclesiastical vestment on the left arm
2. a subdivision of an ancient Roman legion, containing 60 or 120 men - maniple
- What is the derivation of the word "maniple"?
- Middle English < Old French < Latin "manipulus" (handful) < "manus" (hand)
- a way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done
- manner
- a hand-held stone or roller for grinding grains on a metate
- mano (Spanish for "hand")
- a face-to-face confrontation or competitive struggle
- mano a mano (hand-to-hand)
- a body part or process shaped like a handle
- manubrium (Latin for "handle")
- to make or process a raw material into a finished product, especially by a large-scale industrial operation
- manufacture
- to free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate; emancipate
- manumit
- the distal part of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the wrist and hand or the carpus and forefoot
- manus (Latin for "hand")
- Latin word for "hand"
- manus
- a typewritten or handwritten version of a book or other work
- manuscript