maine

maine (plural maines)

1. Obsolete form of main.
   • 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: , London: A M for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:

     No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

maine (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of main.

• minæ, minae, I mean, amine, animé, -amine, manie, Emina, anime

maine

1. vocative plural of main

• Rhymes: -ɑine

Borrowed from Finnish maine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯ne/

maine (genitive maine, partitive mainet)

1. reputation
2. prestige, renown, fame

From maa +‎ -ne.

• IPA^(key): /mˈɑi̯ne/

maine (genitive maise, partitive maist, comparative maisem, superlative kõige maisem)

1. earthly, worldly

main- +‎ -e; from the same root as mainita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯neˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑine
• Hyphenation^(key): mai‧ne

maine

1. reputation
2. prestige, renown, fame
3. (linguistics, dated) predicate

   Synonym: predikaatti

• “maine”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Minea, Naemi, anime

maine

1. Alternative form of mayn

maine

1. Alternative form of meyne

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maine m (plural maines)

1. (Gascony) domain^[1]