MANCIPLE

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MANCIPLE , the

official

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

of the caterer at a college, an inn of

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

, or other institution. Sometimes also the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

cook. The medieval Latin manceps, formed from mancipium, acquisition by

purchase

PURCHASE

(see

ROMAN

ROMAN

LAW), meant a purchaser of stores, and mancipium became used of his

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

. It is from the latter word that the O. Fr. manciple is taken.

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