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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?.ni.?/
• Hyphenation: ma?ni?a
• Rhymes: -e?ni?

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.
3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

Related terms

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

Translations

Further reading

• mania at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??ni.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?ni.a/

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): /?m?ni?/, [?m?ni?]
• Rhymes: -?ni?
• Syllabification: ma?ni?a

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mania

1. mania

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

mania

1. partitive singular of mani

Anagrams

• Naima, aamin, maani, maina

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nja/

Verb

mania

1. first-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?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 389

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?ni.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ma?nìa

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 im?g?, -inis.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

1. (archaic) A waxen votive image, usually hanged from altars.

Derived terms

• maniato

Anagrams

• anima

References

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

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (manía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ni.a/, [?mäniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ni.a/, [?m??ni?]

Noun

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: mania
• Old 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): /?ma?.ni.a/, [?mä?niä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ni.a/, [?m??ni?]

Adjective

m?nia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of m?nis

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

Polish

Etymology

From Late Latin mania, from Ancient Greek ????? (manía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.ja/

Noun

mania f

1. mania (violent derangement)

   Synonyms: amok, obsesja, szajba, sza?

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

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) maniak, maniaczka, maniactwo, maniakalno??
• (adjective) maniakalny
• (adverb) maniakalnie

Further reading

• mania in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

mania f (plural manias)

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

   Synonym: vício

Romanian

Etymology

From French manier.

Verb

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

1. to handle

Conjugation

Tahitian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?ni.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.

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

manca (plural mancae)

1. A mancus.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

manca (plural mancae)

1. (arthropodology) The post-larval juveniles in some crustacean species.

Further reading

• manca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Can-Am

Asturian

Verb

manca

1. third-person singular present indicative of mancar
2. second-person singular imperative of mancar

Catalan

Noun

manca f (plural manques)

1. lack; absence (of something)

Adjective

manca

1. feminine singular of manc
2. feminine singular of manco

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?man.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: màn?ca

Etymology 1

From [?mano?] manca (“left [hand]”).

Noun

manca f (plural manche)

1. left hand
2. left (direction)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

manca

1. feminine singular of manco

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

manca

1. inflection of mancare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Adjective

manca

1. nominative feminine singular of mancus
2. nominative neuter plural of mancus
3. accusative neuter plural of mancus
4. vocative feminine singular of mancus
5. vocative neuter plural of mancus

Adjective

manc?

1. ablative feminine singular of mancus

References

• manca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Adjective

manca

1. feminine singular of manco

Verb

manca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mancar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mancar

Sardinian

Noun

manca

1. left side

Spanish

Adjective

manca

1. feminine singular of manco