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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ˈmaː.noː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmaː.no][1]

Forms

mānō (present infinitive mānāre, perfect active mānāvī, supine mānātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

Its origin is uncertain.[2][3] De Vaan suggests a verb from a noun *māno- “wetness”, comparable with Old Irish móin (“bog, peat”), Welsh mawn (“peat”) and Breton man (“moss”), from a Celtic *māni-, but no good root is available.[2][1] Lewis and Short connected it with madeō “to be wet”.[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Ennius.[2] Köbler dates Ennius 204–169 BC.[5]

Semantic evolution

It meant to flow, run or trickle, of liquids, and to leak away; with an ablative it was to drip with something, as Cicero's statue of Hercules that ran with sweat, a portent.[3] Transitively it meant to shed, as Ovid's marble that still sheds tears.[3] Of sounds, light and abstract things it meant to spread, as Cicero says an evil spread through Italy, and to be derived, to spring from a source.[3]

Döderlein says fluere is flowing as motion, while mānāre is flowing as the giving out of liquid.[6] Its compound ēmānō gave English emanate in the 1680s.[7]

Timeline

  • 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.[2][5]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of a statue running with sweat.[3][5]
  • 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid's marble sheds tears.[3][5]
  • 1680s – English emanate is recorded.[7]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To flow, run, trickle.[3]
  2. To leak, leak away.[3]
  3. To be wet, drip (with).[3]
  4. To shed, pour forth.[3]
  5. (of sounds, light) To spread, (of abstract things) to extend.[3]
  6. To be derived, emanate, spring (from).[3]

Word family

  • dēmānō
  • dīmānō
  • ēmānō
  • mānābilis
  • manamen
  • mānātiō
  • permānō
  • remānō
  • submānō
  • mānālis

Usage notes

Döderlein distinguishes fluere (to flow, the motion of a fluid), mānāre (to flow out, the imparting of a fluid) and liquēre (to be fluid).[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b Döderlein, Ludwig (1874), Döderlein’s Hand-book of Latin Synonymes, tr. H. H. Arnold, Andover: W. F. Draper
  7. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com