different between manille vs manilla

English

Etymology

From French manille, influenced by Spanish manilla.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??nil/

Noun

manille (countable and uncountable, plural manilles)

1. The second-highest trump in certain card games.
2. A card game played with a deck of 32, in which the ten (or ‘manille’) is the highest in each suit.

Anagrams

• Millean, ill name, mallein

Finnish

Noun

manille

1. Allative singular form of mani.

Anagrams

• mallein, mallien, malline

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nij/

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier malille, from Spanish malilla, diminutive of mala.

Noun

manille f (plural manilles)

1. (card games) manille

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan manellie, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from Latin manicula (“little hand”), or from Old High German m?nili (“crescent-shaped ornament, bracelet”, literally “little moon”).

Noun

manille f (plural manilles)

1. ring, bracelet (as worn by a slave or convict)

Etymology 3

From Spanish manilla.

Noun

manille f (plural manilles)

1. manilla

Further reading

• “manille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• manilio

Etymology

From Spanish manilla (“bracelet”), from Catalan manilla (“bracelet, armring”); partly from Latin mon?le (“a necklace, collar”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“withers, crest, mane”); and partly from Frankish *m?nili (“moon-shaped ornament”), from *m?no (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *m?nô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”), related to Old High German mânili (“moon-shaped ornament”). More at mane, moon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

manilla (plural manillas)

1. A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples.

Anagrams

• Alnilam, animall, laminal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin man?cula, diminutive of manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??ni.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?ni.?a/

Noun

manilla f (plural manilles)

1. bracelet
2. (usually in the plural) handcuff

Further reading

• “manilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “manilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Noun

manilla

1. Adessive singular form of mani.

Spanish

Etymology

From mano +? -illa, or more likely borrowed from Catalan manilla, itself a derivative of mà or from Vulgar Latin *manicla < Latin manicula, whence the inherited Spanish manija. Compare English manacle.

Pronunciation

Noun

manilla f (plural manillas)

1. handle
2. (Spain) door handle
3. (Colombia) bracelet

Related terms

• manillar