Manager#
24 July 2022
manager
(noun) A person responsible for controlling or administering an organization or group of staff. [1]
Origin#
From the Latin word manus, which means ‘hand’.
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Notes#
These days, managers manage people and companies but a very long time ago, when people were still fighting each other with swords and lances, what needed real management were horses. The earliest sense of ‘manage’ in English was ‘to handle or train a horse’, or put it through the exercises of the manège. This French word, used in English to mean ‘an area in which horses and riders are trained’ and ‘horsemanship’, is at root of ‘manage’. Both these words, English and French, go back through Italian to Latin manus, meaning ‘hand’. Manus is also the source of several other words such as ‘manacles’ (which restrain your hands), ‘manicure’ (care of your hands), ‘manipulate’ (to handle something), ‘manuscript’ (something written by hand), and ‘manual’ (either done with your hands or with a handbook).