different between mantua vs mantum

English

Etymology

From French manteau, perhaps by confusion with Mantua in Italy.

Noun

mantua (plural mantuas)

1. An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France.
2. (obsolete) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
   • 1882, S. William Beck, The Draper's Dictionary

     Anderson mentions black and coloured mantuas amongst other silks introduced here by the French immigrants of 1685. […] Mantuas are also included in a list of silks advertised for sale in the British Chronicle of 1763 […]

3. (obsolete) A woman's cloak or mantle.
4. (obsolete) A woman's gown.

Anagrams

• tamanu

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

mantum

1. The mantle worn by the pope, which is very similar to a cope, but longer and fastened in the front by an elaborate morse.

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?man.tum/, [?män?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?man.tum/, [?m?n?t?um]

Noun

mantum n (genitive mant?); second declension

1. a Spanish cloak

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• mantum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mantum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette