Meaning of manus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hand
   declension-4, feminine
2. bravery, valor
   declension-4, feminine, figuratively
3. violence, fighting
   declension-4, feminine, figuratively
4. handwriting
   declension-4, feminine, metonymically
5. a side, part, faction
   declension-4, feminine
6. a stake (in dice)
   declension-4, feminine
7. a thrust with a sword
   declension-4, feminine
8. paw of an animal
   declension-4, feminine
9. trunk of an elephant
   declension-4, feminine
10. branch of a tree
    declension-4, feminine
11. grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
    declension-4, feminine
12. company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers
    declension-4, feminine
13. a group, band, or body of people
    declension-4, feminine
14. labor
    declension-4, feminine
15. power, might
    declension-4, feminine
16. legal power of a man over his wife
    declension-4, feminine
17. an arrest
    declension-4, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“Manus gladiatorum oppido eruperat.”

The company of gladiators had made a sally from the town.

“Hōc locō adclāmābit mihi tōta manus dēlicātōrum: “Nihil hāc rē humilius, nihil turpius.” Hōs ego eōsdem dēprehendam aliēnōrum servōrum ōsculantēs manum.”

At this point, a whole band of pampered men will cry out against me: “Nothing is more degrading or more shameful than this.” Yet I will catch these very same men kissing the hand[s] of other men’s slaves. (Seneca contrasts, for rhetorical effect, two different meanings of manus/manum.)

“Et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae.”

"And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand."

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