μανία

See also: Μανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰνῐ́η (maníē) — Ionic

Etymology

From μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.ní.aː/ → /maˈni.a/ → /maˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/

Noun

μᾰνῐ́ᾱ • (maníā) f (genitive μᾰνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. madness, frenzy, enthusiasm
2. mad desire, compulsion

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ hē maníā	τὼ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ tṑ maníā	αἱ μᾰνῐ́αι hai maníai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς tês maníās	τοῖν μᾰνῐ́αιν toîn maníain	τῶν μᾰνῐῶν tôn maniôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰνῐ́ᾳ têi maníāi	τοῖν μᾰνῐ́αιν toîn maníain	ταῖς μᾰνῐ́αις taîs maníais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰνῐ́ᾱν tḕn maníān	τὼ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ tṑ maníā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s maníās
Vocative	μᾰνῐ́ᾱ maníā	μᾰνῐ́ᾱ maníā	μᾰνῐ́αι maníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μανιακός (maniakós)

Descendants

• Greek: μανία (manía)
• → Latin: mania (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: mania
• → Russian: ма́ния (mánija)

Further reading

• “μανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μανία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “μανία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3130 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • craziness idem, page 182.
  • derangement idem, page 214.
  • fanaticism idem, page 306.
  • frenzy idem, page 344.
  • fury idem, page 351.
  • infatuation idem, page 437.
  • insanity idem, page 443.
  • lunacy idem, page 504.
  • madness idem, page 507.
  • mania idem, page 511.
  • rage idem, page 668.
  • raving idem, page 674.
  • transport idem, page 889.
  • wildness idem, page 979.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnia/
• Hyphenation: μα‧νί‧α

Noun

μανία • (manía) f (plural μανίες)

1. mania
2. rage, frenzy
3. obsession

Declension

Declension of μανία

	singular	plural
nominative	μανία •	μανίες •
genitive	μανίας •	μανιών •
accusative	μανία •	μανίες •
vocative	μανία •	μανίες •

Derived terms

• μαινόμενος (mainómenos)
• μαίνομαι (maínomai)
• μανιάζω (maniázo)
• μανιακός (maniakós)
• μάνιασμα (mániasma)
• μανιασμένος (maniasménos)
• μανιώδης (maniódis)
• μανιωδώς (maniodós)
• ξενομανία (xenomanía)