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Mancunian

man·cu·nian

UK/manˈkjuː.nɪ.ən/ US/maŋ-/ uncommon

adjective

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of or relating to or characteristic of the English city of Manchester or its residents

  • “Mancunian merchants”

noun

Origin

] From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin mancuniēnsis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).

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