manicare

Inherited from Latin mandūcāre (“to chew, (coll.) eat”). Doublet of manducare, manucare, and mangiare.

• IPA^(key): /ma.niˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧cà‧re

manicàre (first-person singular present manùco, first-person singular past historic manicài, past participle manicàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rarely literary, puristic and humorous) to eat

   Synonyms: (archaic) manducare, mangiare, (obsolete) manucare

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     ambo le man per lo dolor mi morsi; / ed ei, pensando ch’io ’l fessi per voglia / di manicar, di sùbito levorsi

     I bit both of my hands in agony; and he, thinking I was doing it out of desire to eat, immediately stood up

   • 1889, Francesco De Sanctis, La giovinezza [Youth]‎^[3], published 1983, page 36:

     Quella gente era venuta non a sentir versi, ma a conversare e a manicare

     Those people were not there to listen to poetry, but to talk and eat

• The rhizotonic forms are replaced by the ones from the verb manucare.

manicare m (plural manicari)

1. (uncountable) eating
2. food
   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata prima – Novella prima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[4], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     Ad ogni uomo avviene, quantunque santissimo sia, il parergli, dopo lungo digiuno, buono il manicare, e dopo la fatica, il bere.

     It happens to every man—however saintly he is—to find food pleasant after a long fast, and drinking after work.

• manicaretto

• manicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Marenaci, incamera, macinare, macinerà, marciane

mānicāre

1. inflection of mānicō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative