The story
- Latin · derived fromMancunium
- English todayMancunian
] From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin mancuniēnsis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.