Etymology

manacles

man·a·cles
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Today it means: manacle Full definition →

Middle English manicle ← Old French manicle ← Latin manicula
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frommanicula
  2. Old French · derived frommanicle
  3. Middle English · inherited frommanicle
  4. English todaymanacles

From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive form of manus (“hand”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishmanicle all →

manicle

Old Frenchmanicle all →

manaclemanicle

Latinmanicula all →

manaclemanicule

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.