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Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

English mania

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

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.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, 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[1], volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 July 2020:
      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.
    • 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN‎[2]:
      The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”
  3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
    • 2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:

excessive desire

state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels

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

mania f (plural manies)

  1. mania

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

mania

  1. mania

mania

  1. partitive singular of mani

mania

  1. third-person singular past historic of manier

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mania (transitive)

  1. to follow instructions, obey
  2. to worship

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

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

From Latin imāginem.[1] Doublet of immagine and imago.

mania f (plural manie)

  1. (archaic) a waxen votive image, usually hung from altars
    • 1867, Costantino Medici, Leggenda di san Domenico [Legend of Saint Dominic]‎[5], 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.
  1. ^ maniato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

  1. craze, mania, madness

First-declension noun.

mānia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mānis

mania

  1. money

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Polish mania

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mania.

mania f

  1. mania (violent derangement)
    Synonyms: amok, obsesja, szajba, szał
  2. mania (excessive desire)
  3. (psychiatry) mania (state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels)

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

mania f (plural manias)

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

Borrowed from French manier.

a mania (third-person singular present maniează, past participle maniat) 1st conjugation

  1. to handle

mania

  1. (of the sea or weather) calm
  2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful (state of mind)
  3. dull