mania

English

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mania

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• 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.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 233:

     One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer...

   • 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, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:

Related terms

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

Translations

Further reading

• “mania”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑniɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑniɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧ni‧a

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mania

1. mania

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mania”, 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 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Noun

mania

1. partitive singular of mani

Anagrams

• Naima, aamin, maani, maina

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nja/

• Audio

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Verb

mania

1. third-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

• anima

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mania (transitive)

1. to follow instructions, obey
2. to worship

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 389

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈni.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ma‧nì‧a

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

1. mania
2. habit (if strange)
3. quirk
4. bug
5. one-track mind

   Synonyms: fissazione, assillo, smania, pallino fisso, chiodo fisso

Related terms

• maniacale
• maniaco
• manicomio

Etymology 2

From Latin imāginem. Doublet of immagine and imago.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.nja/
• Rhymes: -anja
• Hyphenation: mà‧nia

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

1. (archaic) a waxen votive image, usually hung from altars
   • 1867, Costantino Medici, Leggenda di san Domenico [Legend of Saint Dominic]‎, Venice: A. Clementi, page 121:

     Disperatosi dunque d'ogni aiutorio umano botossi a Cristo Signore, et al beato messer san Domenico, e volendo in segno di devozione offrere una mania di cera a quella quantità ch'era elli, tolse un filo di stoppa, e cominciò a misurare la lunghezza e la larghezza del corpo suo.

     Then, unable to hope in any human help, he devoted himself to Christ the Lord, and to the blessed sir Saint Dominic, and wishing to offer, as a sign of devotion, a waxen image in the size he was, he took an oakum thread, and started measuring the length and width of his own body.

Derived terms

• maniato

References

Further reading

• mania in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• mania in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• Manai, anima

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/,

Noun

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: mania
• Old Galician-Portuguese: manna
• Romanian: mânie
• → Albanian: mëri, mëni (disputed)
• → Catalan: mania
• → Danish: mani
• → Dutch: manie
• → English: mania
• → Finnish: mania
• → French: manie
• → German: Manie
• → Irish: máine
• → Norwegian: mani
• → Polish: mania
• → Portuguese: mania
• → Spanish: manía
• → Swedish: mani

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/,

Adjective

mānia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mānis

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

mania

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mania.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɲ.ja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aɲja
• Syllabification: man‧ia

Noun

mania f

1. mania (violent derangement)

   Synonyms: amok, obsesja, szajba, szał

2. mania (excessive desire)
3. (psychiatry) mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• mania in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mania

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a

Noun

mania f (plural manias)

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

   Synonym: vício

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French manier.

Verb

a mania (third-person singular present maniează, past participle maniat) 1st conj.

1. to handle

Conjugation

Tahitian

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.