mancipatio

mancipatio (uncountable)

1. (law, historical) In Ancient Rome, a solemn verbal contract by which the ownership of certain types of goods (res mancipi) was transferred.

mancipō +‎ -tiō

mancipātiō f (genitive mancipātiōnis); third declension

1. transfer, delivery
2. surrendering

Third-declension noun.

• “mancipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mancipatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mancipatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “mancipatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mancipatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin