manita
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]manita (plural manitas)
- (rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
- 1828, Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts, page 230:
- […] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists.
Manita means a little hand.
- 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 321, page 112:
- Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.
- 1838, John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants, page 159:
- The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.
- circa 1846, Traveling Sketches, from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the Rural Repository (1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181:
- […] with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.
- 1852, Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850:
- Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.
- 1928, Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage, page 74:
- Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”
- 2000, Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel:
- A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens — […]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Mexican hand tree — see Mexican hand tree
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧ta
Noun
[edit]manita
- the female participant of a manito manita
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From mano + -ita. Football sense from the five fingers representing the five scored goals.
Noun
[edit]manita f (plural manitas)
- diminutive of mano, little hand
- Synonym: manito
- (soccer) wave (to show the hand wide open to the rival public) to indicate that the match was won 5-0 or 0-5
Derived terms
[edit]- hacer manitas (touching and carressing each other's hands)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]manita f (plural manitas)
- Clipping of hermanita.
Further reading
[edit]- “manita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First used in 1882, as Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (mantinota, “mistress”), from Italian mantenuta (“kept woman”). Compare with mantenuto (“kept man”).
Noun
[edit]manita (definite accusative manitayı, plural manitalar)
- girl friend, chick
- 1882, Ahmed Midhat Efendi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- lover (unisex)
Declension
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- en:Mallow family plants
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