different between mannequin vs manacle

English

Alternative forms

• manikin, mannikin, manequin

Etymology

From the French mannequin, from the Dutch manneken (“little man”), diminutive of Dutch man (“man”), equivalent to man +? -kin; compare ramequin/ramekin. Doublet of manikin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn??k?n/
• Homophone: manakin

Noun

mannequin (plural mannequins)

1. A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes
2. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery
3. An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR
4. A person who models clothes

Derived terms

• mannequinlike

Translations

See also

• mannequin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From French mannequin.

Noun

mannequin c (singular definite mannequinen, plural indefinite mannequiner)

1. mannequin

Declension

Further reading

• “mannequin” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French mannequin, from Dutch manneken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.n??k??n/
• Hyphenation: man?ne?quin

Noun

mannequin m (plural mannequins)

1. A clothes model or fashion model, a mannequin.

Hypernyms

• model

Related terms

• man

French

Etymology

From Dutch manneken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.k??/

Noun

mannequin m (plural mannequins)

1. (fashion) model
   • 2016 September 9, "Un mannequin défiguré à l’acide défile à la Fashion Week de New York", Le Monde.

2. dummy, mannequin
   • 2016 August 18, Matteo Maillard, "Être mère et prostituée au Mali", Le Monde.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: maniquí
• ? Czech: manekýn
• ? Danish: mannequin
• ? Dutch: mannequin
• ? English: mannequin
  • ? Japanese: ???? (manekin)
    • ? Korean: ??? (maneking)
• ? Georgian: ???????? (mane?eni)
• ? German: Mannequin
• ? Greek: ??????? (manekén)
• ? Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mannekeng
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mannekeng
• ? Hungarian: manöken
• ? Polish: manekin
• ? Portuguese: manequim
• ? Romanian: manechin
• ? Russian: ??????? (maneken)
• ? Swedish: mannekäng
• ? Spanish: maniquí
• ? Vietnamese: ma-n?-canh

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English manacle, manakelle, manakil, manakyll, manicle, manikil, manycle, manykil, manykle, from Anglo-Norman manicle, manichle (“gauntlet; handle of a plough; (in plural) manacles”), and Middle French manicle, Old French manicle (“armlet; gauntlet; (in plural) manacles”) (modern French manicle, manique (“gauntlet”)), from Latin manicula (“handle of a plough; manacle”), from manus (“hand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?- (“to beckon, signal”)) + -cula (from -culus, variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)).

The verb is probably derived from the noun, although according to the Oxford English Dictionary it is attested slightly earlier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæn?k(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæn?k?l/
• Hyphenation: ma?na?cle

Noun

manacle (plural manacles)

1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.
2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

Usage notes

Often used in the plural form manacles, and as such a plurale tantum.

Derived terms

• manaclelike

Translations

Verb

manacle (third-person singular simple present manacles, present participle manacling, simple past and past participle manacled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles.

Translations

References

Further reading

• handcuffs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Alcmena, MacLean, Maclean, laceman