mania
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧a
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Noun
mania (countable and uncountable, plural manias)
- Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
- Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, 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.
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- (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
- 2004 March, Berrios, G. E., “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, DOI: , PMID 15104084, pages 105–124:
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Related terms
- dipsomania
- manic
- maniac
- megalomania
Translations
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Further reading
- mania at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /məˈni.ə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /maˈni.a/
Noun
mania f (plural manies)
- 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/, [ˈmɑniɑ]
- Rhymes: -ɑniɑ
- Syllabification(key): ma‧ni‧a
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
Noun
mania
- mania
Declension
Inflection of mania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mania | maniat | |
genitive | manian | manioiden manioitten | |
partitive | maniaa | manioita | |
illative | maniaan | manioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mania | maniat | |
accusative | nom. | mania | maniat |
gen. | manian | ||
genitive | manian | manioiden manioitten maniainrare | |
partitive | maniaa | manioita | |
inessive | maniassa | manioissa | |
elative | maniasta | manioista | |
illative | maniaan | manioihin | |
adessive | manialla | manioilla | |
ablative | manialta | manioilta | |
allative | manialle | manioille | |
essive | maniana | manioina | |
translative | maniaksi | manioiksi | |
instructive | — | manioin | |
abessive | maniatta | manioitta | |
comitative | — | manioineen |
Possessive forms of mania (type kulkija) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | maniani | maniamme |
2nd person | maniasi | manianne |
3rd person | maniansa |
Noun
mania
- partitive singular of mani
Anagrams
- Naima, aamin, maani, maina
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.nja/
Audio (file)
Verb
mania
- 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)
- to follow instructions, obey
- 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)
- mania
- habit (if strange)
- quirk
- bug
- one-track mind
- Synonyms: fissazione, assillo, smania, pallino fisso, chiodo fisso
Related terms
- maniacale
- maniaco
- manicomio
Etymology 2
From Latin imāginem.[1] Doublet of immagine and imago.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈma.nja/
- Rhymes: -anja
- Hyphenation: mà‧nia
Noun
mania f (plural manie)
- (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.
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Derived terms
- maniato
References
- maniato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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/, [ˈmäniä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]
Noun
mania f (genitive maniae); first declension
- craze, mania, madness
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mania | maniae |
Genitive | maniae | maniārum |
Dative | maniae | maniīs |
Accusative | maniam | maniās |
Ablative | maniā | maniīs |
Vocative | mania | maniae |
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
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]
Adjective
mānia
- 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ja/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɲja
- Syllabification: man‧ia
Noun
mania f
- mania (violent derangement)
- Synonyms: amok, obsesja, szajba, szał
- mania (excessive desire)
- (psychiatry) mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | mania | manie |
genitive | manii | manii/manij (archaic) |
dative | manii | maniom |
accusative | manię | manie |
instrumental | manią | maniami |
locative | manii | maniach |
vocative | manio | manie |
Derived terms
- -mania
Related terms
- maniakalny
- maniakalnie
- maniactwo
- maniaczka
- maniak
- maniakalność
Further reading
- mania in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mania in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mania or Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
Noun
mania f (plural manias)
- mania (excessive or unreasonable desire)
- vice (bad habit)
- Synonym: vício
Romanian
Etymology
From French manier.
Verb
a mania (third-person singular present maniează, past participle maniat) 1st conj.
- to handle
Conjugation
infinitive | a mania | ||||||
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gerund | maniind | ||||||
past participle | maniat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | maniez | maniezi | maniază | maniem | maniați | maniază | |
imperfect | maniam | maniai | mania | maniam | maniați | maniau | |
simple perfect | maniai | maniași | manie | maniarăm | maniarăți | maniară | |
pluperfect | maniasem | maniaseși | maniase | maniaserăm | maniaserăți | maniaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să maniez | să maniezi | să manieze | să maniem | să maniați | să manieze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | maniază | maniați | |||||
negative | nu mania | nu maniați |
Tahitian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈni.a/
Adjective
mania
- (of the sea or weather) calm
- (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
- 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.