μανία

See also: Μανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾰνῐ́η (mănĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

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

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 • (mănĭ́ā) f (genitive μᾰνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ hē mănĭ́ā	τὼ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mănĭ́ā	αἱ μᾰνῐ́αι hai mănĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς tês mănĭ́ās	τοῖν μᾰνῐ́αιν toîn mănĭ́ain	τῶν μᾰνῐῶν tôn mănĭôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰνῐ́ᾳ têi mănĭ́āi	τοῖν μᾰνῐ́αιν toîn mănĭ́ain	ταῖς μᾰνῐ́αις taîs mănĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰνῐ́ᾱν tḕn mănĭ́ān	τὼ μᾰνῐ́ᾱ tṑ mănĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mănĭ́ās
Vocative	μᾰνῐ́ᾱ mănĭ́ā	μᾰνῐ́ᾱ mănĭ́ā	μᾰνῐ́αι mănĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• -μανης (-manēs)
• 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

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) 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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Declension

Declension of μανία

	singular	plural
nominative	μανία (manía)	μανίες (maníes)
genitive	μανίας (manías)	μανιών (manión)
accusative	μανία (manía)	μανίες (maníes)
vocative	μανία (manía)	μανίες (maníes)

Derived terms

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