managemanage

Manage comes from Old French manege ‘horse-handling’, probably from Old Italian maneggiare ‘to handle’, ultimately from Latin manus ‘hand’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanus¹‘hand’uncertain
2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*manizāre¹‘to handle’uncertain
3. Old Italianmodernmaneggiare¹‘to handle, manage’uncertain
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400manege¹‘the handling or training of a horse’
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*manage¹reconstructed
6. Early Modern Englishmodernmanage¹
7. Englishearliest quotation 1590manage¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English manage
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto II: “The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer…”.