mania

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
  • 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.
    • 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.

Translations

Further reading

  • mania at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

mania f (plural manies)

  1. mania

Further reading

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

mania

  1. mania
Declension
Inflection of mania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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

Etymology 2

Noun

mania

  1. Partitive singular form of mani.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.nja/

Verb

mania

  1. first-person singular past historic of manier

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mania.

Noun

mania f (plural manie)

  1. mania
  2. habit (if strange)
  3. quirk
  4. bug

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

Pronunciation

Noun

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

  1. craze, mania, madness
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mania maniae
genitive maniae maniārum
dative maniae maniīs
accusative maniam maniās
ablative maniā maniīs
vocative mania maniae
Descendants

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

mānia

  1. inflection of mānis:
    1. nominative neuter plural
    2. accusative neuter plural
    3. vocative neuter plural

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mania

Noun

mania f (plural manias)

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

Synonyms

Tahitian

FWOTD – 5 January 2013

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

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