The story
- Latin · derived frommancipium“slave”
- Medieval Latin · derived frommancipiolum“lowly servant”
- Old French · derived frommanciple
- Middle English · derived frommaunciple
- English todaymanciple
From Middle English maunciple, from Old French manciple, from Medieval Latin mancipiolum (“lowly servant”), diminutive of Latin mancipium (“slave”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.