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mango, mangonis m.

Definition: slave dealer

Sententia: Vir rogavit num mango servum qui bene fructus deligere sciret haberet (sed non mangae, quia non erant notae Romanis).

The man asked whether the dealer might have a slave of the sort who might know how to chose fruits well (but not mangoes, because they were not familiar to the Romans).

Yesterday's word was a fruit, and today's word seems like it should be a fruit, but indeed it is not! Otherwise, this word is hardly used at all (10 times, according to Perseus)--it's only cool because of what it seems to be, not what it actually is. And the Romans didn't even know of mangoes!