manes

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

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: mäʹnāz, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːneɪz/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːneɪz

Noun

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.

Related terms

• manism
• manist

Translations

spirits of the dead

• Dutch: manen (nl) pl
• French: mânes (fr) m pl
• German: Manen (de) 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/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪnz

Noun

manes

1. plural of mane

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Noun

manes

1. plural of mano

Catalan

Verb

manes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of manar

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• Manes

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/, [ˈmäːneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nes/, [ˈmäːnes]

Noun

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

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

Case	Plural
Nominative	mānēs
Genitive	mānium
Dative	mānibus
Accusative	mānēs mānīs
Ablative	mānibus
Vocative	mānēs

Derived terms

• Di Manes
• DM

 

Descendants

• English: manes
• French: mânes pl
• German: Manen pl

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.neːs/, [ˈmäːneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nes/, [ˈmäːnes]

Adjective

mānēs

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.neːs/, [ˈmäneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nes/, [ˈmäːnes]

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 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

Noun

manes

1. plural of mane

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin manes.

Noun

manes m pl (plural only)

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

Etymology 2

Verb

manes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of manar

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

manes m pl (plural only)

1. manes (souls)

Etymology 2

Verb

manes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of manar

Further reading

• “manes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Volapük

Noun

manes

1. dative plural of man