English Explanatory Dictionary

manoeuvre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
verb
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.

Pronunciation

/məˈnuːvə/ en-uk-Manoeuvre.ogg /məˈnuːvɚ/ en-us-maneuver.ogg

Word forms

manoeuvre manoeuvres manoeuvring manoeuvred

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.

Related words

overtaking

Derived words

manoeuvrability manoeuvrable manoeuvreable manoeuvrer outmanoeuvre Valsalva manoeuvre
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary