manus

See also: Manus and mánus

Contents

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”).

Noun

manus (plural manus)

1. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Derived terms

• amanuensis
• Bimana
• bimanous
• command
• immane
• longimanous
• mainpast
• mainport
• maintain
• manacle
• manciple
• maniable
• manichord
• manicure
• manifest
• maniform
• manilla
• maniple
• manitrunk
• manmotive
• manner
• manoeuvre
• manual
• manuduct
• manufact
• manufaction
• manufacture
• manumotor
• manuprisor
• manuscribe
• manuscript
• manuscription
• manutergium
• manu-tract
• massage
• masturbate
• mortmain
• pedimane
• Quadrumana

 

Translations

hand — see hand

Roman law: power over other people

• Latin: manus (la) f

Anagrams

• Suman, Usman, namus, suman

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Hungarian

Alternative forms

• manusz

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani manush, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒnuʃ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧nus

Noun

manus (plural manusok)

1. (colloquial) guy, man, bloke
   • 2012, Judit Szántó (translator), Kathy Reichs, Csont és bőr (Death du Jour), Ulpius-ház →ISBN, chapter 11, page 169:

     A manus bólintott, és hűséges kutyaszemmel tapadt az arcára. ¶ – Viszlát – biccentett kecsesen Harry, mire a manus vállat vont, és beleveszett a tömegbe.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	manus	manusok
accusative	manust	manusokat
dative	manusnak	manusoknak
instrumental	manussal	manusokkal
causal-final	manusért	manusokért
translative	manussá	manusokká
terminative	manusig	manusokig
essive-formal	manusként	manusokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	manusban	manusokban
superessive	manuson	manusokon
adessive	manusnál	manusoknál
illative	manusba	manusokba
sublative	manusra	manusokra
allative	manushoz	manusokhoz
elative	manusból	manusokból
delative	manusról	manusokról
ablative	manustól	manusoktól

Possessive forms of manus
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	manusom	manusaim
2nd person sing.	manusod	manusaid
3rd person sing.	manusa	manusai
1st person plural	manusunk	manusaink
2nd person plural	manusotok	manusaitok
3rd person plural	manusuk	manusaik

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Latin

manus (a hand)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-. Cognates include Ancient Greek μάρη (márē), Old Norse mund, Old English mund. More at mound.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nus/, [ˈma.nʊs]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

manus f (genitive manūs); fourth declension

1. hand
2. (figuratively) bravery, valor
3. (figuratively) violence, fighting
4. handwriting
5. a side, part, faction
6. a stake (in dice)
7. a thrust with a sword
8. paw of an animal
9. trunk of an elephant
10. branch of a tree
11. (military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
12. group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers
13. labor
14. power, might
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2

      et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae

      "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand."

15. (law) legal power of a man over his wife
16. (law) an arrest
17. group of people
18. band

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manus	manūs
Genitive	manūs	manuum
Dative	manuī	manibus
Accusative	manum	manūs
Ablative	manū	manibus
Vocative	manus	manūs

Derived terms

• adminiculum
• comminus
• manātus
• mandō
• manducō
• manicula
• manifestus
• manipulus
• mansuēs
• mansuescō
• mantica
• manua
• manuālis
• manuārius
• manuātus
• manuballista
• manubia
• manūbrium
• manucium
• manufactilis
• manuinspex
• manulea
• manūmitto
• manuor
• manupretium
• manus extrema
• manutergium
• manutigium
• masturbor

 

Related terms

• mancus

Descendants

• Aragonese: man
• Aromanian: mãnã
• Asturian: mano
• Catalan: mà
• Dalmatian: mun
• English: manus (borrowed)
• Esperanto: mano
• French: main
• Friulian: man
• Galician: man, mao

• Ido: manuo
• Interlingua: mano
• Istriot: man
• Istro-Romanian: măre
• Italian: mano
• Ladin: man
• Megleno-Romanian: mǫnă
• Neapolitan: mana
• Occitan: man

• Portuguese: mão
• Romanian: mână
• Romansch: maun
• Sardinian: manu
• Sicilian: manu
• Spanish: mano
• Venetian: man
• Walloon: mwin

See also

• pēs

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“timely, opportune”); hence also immānis (“vast, monstrous”).

Alternative forms

• mānis

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.nus/, [ˈmaː.nʊs]

Adjective

mānus (feminine māna, neuter mānum); first/second declension

2. (Old Latin) good

   c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidore of Seville, Etymologies V.xxx.14:

   Mane lux matura et plena, nec iam crepusculum. Et dictum mane a mano; manum enim antiqui bonum dicebant. Quid enim melius luce?

   By morning (mane) the light is ripe and full, no longer dusky. And the word mane is from the word manus, for manus of old meant good. For what is better than light?

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mānus	māna	mānum		mānī	mānae	māna
Genitive	mānī	mānae	mānī		mānōrum	mānārum	mānōrum
Dative	mānō		mānō		mānīs
Accusative	mānum	mānam	mānum		mānōs	mānās	māna
Ablative	mānō	mānā	mānō		mānīs
Vocative	māne	māna	mānum		mānī	mānae	māna

Derived terms

• māne

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nuːs/

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

Noun

manūs

1. genitive singular of manus
2. nominative plural of manus
3. accusative plural of manus
4. vocative plural of manus

References

• manus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• manus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• manus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
    
  • to make not the slightest effort; not to stir a finger: manum non vertere alicuius rei causa
    
  • to lay violent hands on a person: manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to raise one's hands in astonishment: manus tollere
    
  • to own oneself conquered, surrender: manus dare
    
  • to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem
    
  • to hold something in one's hand: manu or in manu tenere aliquid
    
  • to pass a thing from hand to hand: de manu in manus or per manus tradere aliquid
    
  • to come into some one's hands: in alicuius manus venire, pervenire
    
  • to fall unexpectedly into some one's hands: in alicuius manus incidere
    
  • to take something into one's hands: in manus(m) sumere aliquid
    
  • to carry some one away in one's arms: inter manus auferre aliquem
    
  • to lay hands on oneself: manus, vim sibi afferre
    
  • to be in a person's power: in manu, in potestate alicuius situm, positum esse
    
  • to take up a book in one's hands: librum in manus sumere
    
  • to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • to kill with violence: vim et manus afferre alicui (Catil. 1. 8. 21)
    
  • to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere
    
  • to shake hands with voters in canvassing: manus prensare (De Or. 1. 24. 112)
    
  • a town artificially fortified: oppidum manu (opere) munitum
    
  • to come to close quarters: manum (us) conserere cum hoste
    
  • the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit
    
  • personally brave: manu fortis
    
  • to throw grappling irons on board; to board: copulas, manus ferreas (in navem) inicere
    
  • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
    
  • (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 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
    
• manus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 740

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Latvian

Pronoun

manus

1. accusative plural masculine form of mans

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Swedish

Noun

manus n

1. Clipping of manuskript (“screenplay”).

Declension

Declension of manus
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	manus	manuset	manus	manusen
Genitive	manus	manusets	manus	manusens