Searchable Lemmata: manutergium (L), manuterga (L).
Note(n.)
Other;
regularly refers to an item of ecclesiastical furniture or dress, either the cloth or napkin used during the administration of Holy Communion or an ornamental piece of clerical dress developed from it (sense 1). In Medieval British Latin, it carried these senses, as well as related senses, such as an altar cloth (2a), a vernicle (2b), a tablecloth (2c) and a cloth used as a cheese-cloth (2d).
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1(n.)
Accessory;
towel or napkin; cloth covering for the hands; specifically, a napkin used during the administration of Holy Communion, often associated with the facitergium. Came to be identified as part of a subdeacon's dress.(ante 700 - ante 1500 ?)
1. Sabanum Graecum est. Facietergium et manitergium a tergendo faciem vel manus vocatum. Vela dicta quod obiectu suo interiora domorum velent.
[DOE ISID. Etym. (19,26,7)]
9. instrumenta ecclesiastica sunt hec: lavacrum ... crucifixum et alie ... ymagines ... feretrum, manutergium, facitergium ... vestes sacerdotis sint ibi, casula, superpellicium et *caphicesium [v.l. *capitestium] ... cingulum, sive tropheum, sive zona, sive balteum ... examitam vel *amicum
Gloss.
[DMLBS NECKAM (Ut. 119) ante 1217]
10. pro adustione lingue lavetur lingua cum aqua calida prius et cum manutergio abstergatur
Medical.
[DMLBS GILB. (I 19vb)]
11. Quidam homines usurpant sibi officia mulierum, qui vendunt mappas et manutergia, lintheamina, et camisias et braccas, teristra, supara, staminas, et telas, pepla et flammeola.
[AND TLL (1,199,12-14) circa 1246]
12. manutergia: tualles / braccas: bracce/ teristra : chenses / supara : rochet / staminas : estamin / flammeola : kevrechisy
[AND TLL (2,150,21) ante 1300]
Sex: Male, Female Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Hand.
2a(n.)
Furnishing;
altar cloth.(circa 1200 - circa 1300)
1. unum manutergium, unum de canavazio ad coperiendum altere, phiolam et thurribulum
Accounts.
[DMLBS Cl (254) 1236]
Sex: N/A Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.
2b(n.)
Accessory;
vernicle (cloth of St. Veronica, usually described as having a depiction of the face of Christ).(circa 1100)
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2c(n.)
Furnishing;
table cloth.(circa 1483)
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2d(n.)
Accessory;
cloth or towel used as a cheese-cloth.(circa 1285)
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Definite, The form manutergium first appears in Late L (c.200 - c.600 AD), consisting of manus (hand) a nominal derivation (with -ium suffix) from the verb tergere 'to wipe, rub', etc., so originally 'item for the hands to wipe with'.
WF: Compound
Etym Cog:
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