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manes

See also: maneš, manés, manès, mânes, mañes, månes, and manęs

English edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

From Latin manes (“spirits of the dead”).

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: mäʹnāz, IPA(key): /ˈmɑːneɪz/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːneɪz

Noun edit

manes pl (plural only)

  1. The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 9:
      this was the Ustrina or place of burning their bodies, or some sacrificing place unto the Manes
    • 1819, Felicia Hemans, The Wife of Asdrubal, Tales and Historic Scenes, page 171:
      Still may the manès of thy children rise
      To chase calm slumber from thy wearied eyes;
      Still may their voices on the haunted air
      In fearful whispers tell thee to despair,
    • 1869, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, “Moral Tales and Sketches § Battle of Bunker Hill”, in H. A. Cleveland, editor, Golden Sheaves Gathered from the Fields of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Miscellany of Choice Reading for the Entertainment of the Old and the Young in Hours that Are Lonely and Weary‎[1], Zeigler, McCurdy & Co., page 24:
      At this instant the trappings of his attire caught the glaring eye-balls of a dying yeoman, who exerted his wasting strength to sacrifice one more worthy victim to the manes of his countrymen.
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Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

manes

  1. plural of mane

Anagrams edit

Asturian edit

Noun edit

manes

  1. plural of mano

Catalan edit

Verb edit

manes

  1. second-person singular present indicative of manar

Latin edit

Etymology 1 edit

Substantive use of the masculine plural of Old Latin mānis (“good”), so originally "the good ones".

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Noun edit

mānēs m pl (genitive mānium); third declension

  1. spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
  2. the spirit of a specific dead person
  3. remains, the ashes or corpse of a dead person
  4. Hades, the netherworld
Declension edit

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative mānēs
Genitive mānium
Dative mānibus
Accusative mānēs
mānīs
Ablative mānibus
Vocative mānēs
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • English: manes
  • French: mânes pl
  • German: Manen pl

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

mānēs

  1. (Old Latin) nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine singular of mānis (“good”)

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

manēs

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of maneō

References edit

  • “manes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • manes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to have something in one's hands, on hand: in manibus habere aliquid (also metaphorically)
    • (ambiguous) to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid
    • (ambiguous) to let go from one's hands: e manibus dimittere
    • (ambiguous) to carry in one's arms: in manibus aliquem gestare
    • (ambiguous) to slip, escape from the hands: e (de) manibus effugere, elābi
    • (ambiguous) to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)
    • (ambiguous) to have success in one's grasp: fortunam in manibus habere
    • (ambiguous) to let success slip through one's fingers: fortunam ex manibus dimittere
    • (ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: liber mihi est in manibus
    • (ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: librum in manibus habere (Acad. 1. 1. 2)
    • (ambiguous) the book, speech can easily be obtained: liber, oratio in manibus est
    • (ambiguous) to lay down a book (vid. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...): librum de manibus ponere
    • (ambiguous) to appease the manes, make sacrifice for departed souls: manes expiare (Pis. 7. 16)
    • (ambiguous) to wrest weapons from some one's hands: extorquere arma e manibus
    • (ambiguous) to not let the enemy escape: hostem e manibus non dimittere
    • (ambiguous) to escape from the hands of the enemy: effugere, elābi e manibus hostium
    • (ambiguous) to let the enemy escape: dimittere e manibus hostes
    • (ambiguous) to rescue some one from the hands of the enemy: eripere aliquem e manibus hostium
  • “manes”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[3]
  • “manes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “manes”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “manes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English edit

Noun edit

manes

  1. plural of mane

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Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ma‧nes

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin manes.

Noun edit

manes m pl (plural only)

  1. (Roman mythology) manes (spirits of the dead)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

manes

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of manar

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmanes/ [ˈma.nes]
  • Rhymes: -anes
  • Syllabification: ma‧nes

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

manes m pl (plural only)

  1. manes (souls)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

manes

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of manar

Further reading edit

Volapük edit

Noun edit

manes

  1. dative plural of man
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