Adjective: manco
Hyphenation: màn‧co
| Singular m. | manco |
| Singular f. | manca |
| Plural m. | manchi |
| Plural f. | manche |
Sample Sentences
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[…] e ciò esser non può, se li 'ntelletti ¶ che muovon queste stelle non son manchi, ¶ e manco il primo, che non li ha perfetti. ([…] this cannot be, if the Intelligences that keep these stars in motion are not maimed, and maimed the first that has not made them perfect.) [1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅷ [Canto 7]”, in La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, pages 142–143:]
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Ma negli ordini manchi e divisi ¶ mal si regge, già cede una schiera; (But in the maimed, divided orders, one barely resisting rank already falls) [1820, Alessandro Manzoni, Il conte di Carmagnola, collected in Opere varie, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 238:]
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la mano manca (the left hand)
Adjectives inflected like manco
sbieco,
zanzarifugo,
artigianesco,
cavalleresco,
antiscialagogo,
paganesco,
villesco,
gigionesco,
leonesco,
pindaresco,
novecentesco,
duecentesco,
militaresco,
pittoresco,
dottoresco,
bustocco,
avvocatesco,
boccaccesco,
caporalesco,
bacucco, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”). See: Latin Adjectives '
mancus', Latin Adjectives '
mancus'.
Verbs referencing "manco"
French Adjectives
à la manque, Catalan Adjectives
manc.
Translations