manes

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

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: mäʹnāz, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːneɪz/

Noun

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 terms

• manism
• manist

Translations

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 2

Pronunciation

• enPR: mānz, IPA^(key): /meɪnz/

Noun

manes

1. plural of mane

Anagrams

• amens
• manse
• means
• mensa, Mensa
• names

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Verb

manes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of manar

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Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/

Noun

mānēs m pl (genitive mānium); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

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

Descendants

• English: manes
• German: Manen pl

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/

Adjective

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 3

Non-lemma forms.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.neːs/

Verb

manēs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of maneō

References

• manes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “manes” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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Portuguese

Noun

manes m pl (plurale tantum)

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanes/

Verb

manes

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

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Volapük

Noun

manes

1. dative plural of man