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mantele.

cloth to wipe hands or mouth, towel, napkin

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[manˈteː.ɫɛ]Classical-Latin[manˈtɛː.le]
  1. cloth to wipe hands or mouth, towel, napkin

    declension-3
  2. tablecloth

    declension-3 · obsolete
Where this word comes from

A decomposition into manus (“hand”) and tergō (“to wipe, to rub”) would be semantically likely (compare Late Latin manutergium), but the morphological processes involved are murky, taking into account the variants, their relationship of which is not without doubts, and their obscuration by scribal error. In late and vulgar Latin it was confounded with and driven away by diminutive forms of the Celtic mantus, mantum (“cloak”).

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