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English
Etymology 1
From Latin manes (“spirits of the dead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
manes pl (plural only)
- 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, 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.
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
manes
- plural of mane
Anagrams
- Means, Mensa, Seman, amens, manse, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames
Asturian
Noun
manes
- plural of mano
Catalan
Verb
manes
- second-person singular present indicative of manar
Latin
Etymology 1
Substantive use of the masculine plural of Old Latin mānis (“good”), so originally "the good ones".
Pronunciation
Noun
mānēs m pl (genitive mānium); third declension
- souls or spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.34:
- “Id cinerem aut mānīs crēdis cūrāre sepultōs?”
- “Do you believe that this matters to ashes, or spirits entombed?”
(Anna questions Dido’s devotion to her deceased husband; it may be a general statement about all spirits, or understood specifically about the dead Sychaeus. Some editors capitalize “Manis.” Commentary by T.E. Page , pg. 348: “The poet uses the three words cinerem, Manes, sepultos to emphasise the idea of something which being destroyed, dead, and buried is utterly incapable of concern in what goes on among the living.”)
- the spirit of a specific dead person
- remains, the ashes or corpse of a dead person
- Hades, the netherworld
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mānēs
- (Old Latin) nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine singular of mānis (“good”)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
manēs
- 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, 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
- “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
- plural of mane
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin manes.
Noun
manes m pl (plural only)
- (Roman mythology) manes (spirits of the dead)
Etymology 2
Verb
manes
- second-person singular present subjunctive of manar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmanes/
- Rhymes: -anes
- Syllabification: ma‧nes
Etymology 1
Noun
manes m pl (plural only)
- manes (souls)
Etymology 2
Verb
manes
- second-person singular present subjunctive of manar
Further reading
Volapük
Noun
manes
- dative plural of man