mania

See also -mania, mánia, mânia, manía, and -manía

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (mania, “madness”).

Pronunciation

• (US): IPA: /ˈmeɪniə/, X-SAMPA: /"meIni@/
• Hyphenation: ma‧nia
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

mania (plural manias)

1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism

Related terms

• batmania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

Translations

violent derangement

• Armenian: մոլուցք (hy) (moluc’k’)
• Catalan: mania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躁狂癥 (cmn), 躁狂症 (cmn) (zàokuángzhèng)

• Danish: mani (da) c
• Dutch: manie (nl) f
• Finnish: mania (fi), vimma (fi)
• French: manie (fr) f

• German: Manie (de) f
• Greek: μανία (el) (manía) f
• Italian: mania (it) f
• Japanese: 躁病 (ja) (そうびょう, sōbyō)
• Romanian: mânie (ro)
• Russian: мания (ru) (mánija) f
• Spanish: manía (es) f
• Swedish: mani (sv) c

excessive desire

• Catalan: mania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂熱 (cmn), 狂热 (cmn) (kuángrè)

• Dutch: manie (nl) f
• Finnish: mania (fi)

• Greek: μανία (el) (manía) f
• Italian: mania (it) f
• Portuguese: mania (pt) f
• Spanish: manía (es) f

Anagrams

• amain, Amina, amnia, anima

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Finnish

Noun

mania

1. mania

Declension

Declension of mania (type kulkija) singular plural nominative mania maniat genitive manian manioiden manioitten maniain1 partitive maniaa manioita accusative mania manian maniat inessive maniassa manioissa elative maniasta manioista illative maniaan manioihin adessive manialla manioilla ablative manialta manioilta allative manialle manioille essive maniana manioina translative maniaksi manioiksi instructive – manioin abessive maniatta manioitta comitative – manioineen 1) Rare.

Noun

mania

1. Partitive singular form of mani.

Anagrams

• aamin, maina, Naima

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ma.nja/

Verb

mania

1. first-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

• anima

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mania.

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

1. mania
2. habit (if strange)
3. quirk
4. bug

Related terms

• maniacale
• maniaco
• manicomio

Anagrams

• anima

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μανία.

Noun

mania (genitive maniae); f, first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mania	maniae
genitive	maniae	maniārum
dative	maniae	maniīs
accusative	maniam	maniās
ablative	maniā	maniīs
vocative	mania	maniae

Descendants

• Albanian: mëri
• English: mania
• French: manie

• Italian: mania
• Romanian: mânie
• Spanish: manía

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Tahitian

FWOTD - 5 January 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maˈni.a/

Adjective

mania

1. (of the sea or weather) calm
2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
3. dull

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “mania” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.