manco

See also: mancò, mancó, manço, and Manço

Asturian

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmaŋ.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmaŋ.ko]

Etymology 1

Probably from archaic Italian manco (“less”, adverb).

Adverb

manco

1. (Alghero, Balearic, Valencia, Empordà) less

   Synonym: menys

   més o manco ― more or less

Etymology 2

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural manques)

1. Alternative form of manc

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Further reading

• “manco” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish mango.

Nomen

manco (inanimate)

1. (Milpa Alta) Mango

Dutch

Etymology

From Italian manco, from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

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Nomen

manco n (plural manco's, diminutive mancootje n)

1. shortage, deficit

   Synonyms: gebrek, tekort, tekortkoming

Derived terms

• mancolijst

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese manco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mancus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaŋkʊ]

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame

   Synonyms: coxo, zopo

2. one-handed, one-armed, maimed

   Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Nomen

manco m (plural mancos, feminine manca, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame person

   Synonyms: coxo, zopo

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 167:

     Ali da soude aos enfermos et alumea os çegos, et liura os demoniados et da aos sordos oydo, et aos mãcos fazeos andar

     There he gives health to the sick ones and lights the blind, and free the possessed and gives hearing to the deaf ones, and he makes the lame ones walk

2. one-handed, one-armed, maimed person, cripple

   Synonyms: coteno, coto, toco

Derived terms

• mancar
• manqueira
• manquexar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “manco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “manco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “manco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “manco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “manco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.ko/
• Rhymes: -anko
• Hyphenation: màn‧co

Etymology 1

From Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural manchi, feminine plural manche)

1. (archaic, literary) faulty, imperfect, maimed, missing something

   Synonym: manchevole

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅷ [Canto 7]”, in La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, pages 142–143:

     […] 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.

   • 1820, Alessandro Manzoni, Il conte di Carmagnola, collected in Opere varie, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 238:

     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

2. left

   Synonym: sinistro

   la mano manca ― the left hand

Derived terms

• manca
• mancare
• mancino

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: manc

Adverb

manco

1. (colloquial) not even

   Synonyms: neppure, neanche

3. (literary) less

   Synonym: meno

Derived terms

• nemmanco

Descendants

• → Catalan: manco

Etymology 2

Deverbal from mancare +‎ -o.

Nomen

manco m (uncountable)

2. (literary) lack, shortage

   Synonym: mancanza

   avere manco di una cosa ― to lack a thing (literally, “to have lack of a thing”)

Descendants

• → English: mank
• → German: Manko
• → Middle French: manque
  • French: manque

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancare

Further reading

• manco¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• manco² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• monca

Ladin

Etymology

comparative degree of puech

Adjective

manco

1. less

l manco

1. (the) least

Latin

Adjective

mancō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mancus

References

• manco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.ku/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ku
• Hyphenation: man‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese manco, from Latin mancus (“maimed”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. lame (unable to walk properly)

   Synonyms: perneta, coxo, (Brazil) capenga

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanko/ [ˈmãŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -anko
• Syllabification: man‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”).

Adjective

manco (feminine manca, masculine plural mancos, feminine plural mancas)

1. one-handed, one-armed, maimed
2. defective, faulty, incomplete

   obra manca ― defective play

   verso manco ― faulty verse

3. (video games) chump, useless, butterfingers (a unskilled player, due to his inexperience or lack of skill for the game)

   Synonym: (Spain) paquete

4. (figuratively, nautical) oarless, without oars

Etymology 2

Nomen

manco m (plural mancos)

1. (Chile, collquial) horse

   Synonym: caballo

Etymology 3

Nomen

manco m (plural mancos)

1. tayra

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Further reading

• “manco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Verb

manco

1. first-person singular present indicative of mancar

Adverb

manco

1. less