manes

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

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: mäʹnāz, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːneɪz/

NounEdit

manes pl (plural only)

1. The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 9

     this was the Ustrina or place of burning their bodies, or some sacrificing place unto the Manes

Related termsEdit

• manism
• manist

TranslationsEdit

spirits of the dead

• Dutch: manen (nl) pl
• French: mânes (fr) m pl
• German: Manen pl
• Ido: mani (io) pl

• Irish:

  Old Irish: taise

• Polish: many (pl)
• Portuguese: manes (pt) m pl

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: mānz, IPA^(key): /meɪnz/

NounEdit

manes

1. plural of mane

AnagramsEdit

• Means, Mensa, Seman, amens, manse, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

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CatalanEdit

VerbEdit

manes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of manar

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Literally "the good ones", substantive use of the masculine plural of mānis (“good”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/

NounEdit

mānēs m pl (genitive mānium); third declension

1. the spirits of dead ancestors; deified shades
2. a corpse
3. ashes; remains
4. the netherworld

InflectionEdit

Third declension i-stem.

Case	Plural
nominative	mānēs
genitive	mānium
dative	mānibus
accusative	mānēs
ablative	mānibus
vocative	mānēs

DescendantsEdit

• English: manes
• German: Manen pl

Etymology 2Edit

See etymology on the main entry.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/

AdjectiveEdit

mānēs

1. inflection of mānis:
   1. nominative masculine singular
   2. accusative masculine singular
   3. vocative masculine singular
   4. nominative feminine singular
   5. accusative feminine singular
   6. vocative feminine singular

Etymology 3Edit

See etymology on the main entry.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.neːs/

VerbEdit

manēs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of maneō

ReferencesEdit

• 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^[1], 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^[2]
• 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 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

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin manes.

NounEdit

manes m pl (plural only)

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

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanes/

VerbEdit

manes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of manar.

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VolapükEdit

NounEdit

manes

1. dative plural of man