mania Latin · revision 4188

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Caelius Aurelianus|origins=grc μανία}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈma.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmaː.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mania''' ''f'' (genitive maniae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|μανία|tr=manía|t=madness, frenzy]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Etymonline relates the Greek word to [[m|grc|μαίνομαι|tr=maínomai|t=to rage]].^(Etymonline) The native Latin words were [[furor]] and [[insania]].^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore of Seville derives it from madness or fury.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Caelius Aurelianus uses it in his work on acute diseases.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler names Vegetius, about 400 AD, as its first source.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a medical word for madness, in Caelius Aurelianus, and Vegetius uses it of a disease of cattle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Isidore of Seville treats it among chronic diseases and explains its name.^(Isidore)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant fury, rage or frenzy, as Bede's “they accuse Christ of fury and madness”.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) English ''mania'' is recorded in the late 14th century for mental derangement with excitement and delusion.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it of a disease of cattle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of madness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville explains it.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''mania'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|madness]], [[m|en|mania]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A disease of cattle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Fury, rage, [[m|en|frenzy]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[māniola]]

+ * [[maniosus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|mania]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is distinct from ''Mānia'', the mother of the Lares, and ''maniae'', ugly masks used as bugbears, which are related to ''mānēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}