English
manubial
Manubial comes from Latin manubialis ‘of or pertaining to booty’, and goes back to manubiae.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanubiae‘money obtained from the sale of booty, plunder’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanubialis‘of or pertaining to booty’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824manubial
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanubiae‘money obtained from the sale of booty, plunder’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanubialis‘of or pertaining to booty’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824manubial
Earliest quotation: 1824, T. Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard, The Sevi-Lan-Gwy: “Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore, The hall’s…”
Every English word from Latin manubiae
Today it means
adj Taken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin manubiae / manubial