mania

See also: Mania, manía, mânia, mânià, -mania, and -manía

English

Etymology

From Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)

1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
   • 2004 March, Berrios, G. E., “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, DOI:10.1177/0957154X04041829, PMID 15104084, pages 105–124:

Related terms

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

Translations

violent derangement

• Armenian: մոլուցք (hy) (molucʿkʿ)
• Catalan: mania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躁狂癥 (zh), 躁狂症 (zh) (zàokuángzhèng)

• Danish: mani c
• Dutch: manie (nl) f
• Finnish: mania (fi), vimma (fi)
• French: manie (fr) f
• German: Manie (de) f
• Greek: μανία (el) f (manía)

• Italian: mania (it) f
• Japanese: 躁病 (そうびょう, sōbyō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mani (no) m

  Nynorsk: mani m

• Portuguese: insanidade f
• Romanian: mânie (ro)
• Russian: ма́ния (ru) f (mánija)
• Spanish: manía (es) f
• Swedish: mani (sv) c

excessive desire

• Catalan: mania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂熱 (zh), 狂热 (zh) (kuángrè)

• Dutch: manie (nl) f
• Finnish: mania (fi)
• Greek: μανία (el) f (manía)

• Italian: mania (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mani (no) m

  Nynorsk: mani m

• Portuguese: mania (pt) f
• Spanish: manía (es) f

state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels

Further reading

• mania at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

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Catalan

Noun

mania f (plural manies)

1. mania

Related terms

• maníac
• manicomi

Further reading

• “mania” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

mania

1. mania

Declension

Inflection of mania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		mania	maniat
genitive		manian	manioiden manioitten
partitive		maniaa	manioita
illative		maniaan	manioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mania	maniat
accusative	nom.	mania	maniat
	gen.	manian
genitive		manian	manioiden manioitten maniainrare
partitive		maniaa	manioita
inessive		maniassa	manioissa
elative		maniasta	manioista
illative		maniaan	manioihin
adessive		manialla	manioilla
ablative		manialta	manioilta
allative		manialle	manioille
essive		maniana	manioina
translative		maniaksi	manioiksi
instructive		—	manioin
abessive		maniatta	manioitta
comitative		—	manioineen

Etymology 2

Noun

mania

1. Partitive singular form of mani.

Anagrams

• Naima, aamin, maina

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nja/

Verb

mania

1. first-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

• anima

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mania.

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

1. mania
2. habit (if strange)
3. quirk
4. bug

Related terms

• maniacale
• maniaco
• manicomio

Anagrams

• anima

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/

Noun

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mania	maniae
genitive	maniae	maniārum
dative	maniae	maniīs
accusative	maniam	maniās
ablative	maniā	maniīs
vocative	mania	maniae

Descendants

• Albanian: mëri
• Catalan: mania
• English: mania
• French: manie
• Irish: máine

• Italian: mania
• Old Portuguese: manna
• Portuguese: mania
• Romanian: mânie
• Spanish: manía

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/

Adjective

mānia

1. inflection of mānis:
   1. nominative neuter plural
   2. accusative neuter plural
   3. vocative neuter plural

References

• mania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mania in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mania in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mania in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mania

Noun

mania f (plural manias)

1. mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)
2. vice (bad habit)

Synonyms

• (vice): vício

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Tahitian

FWOTD – 5 January 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/

Adjective

mania

1. (of the sea or weather) calm
2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
3. dull

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “mania” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.