mânes
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mânes m pl (plural only)
- (historical) manes
- (literary) spirits
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 4, scene 2:
- J’en viens d’immoler deux aux Mânes de mes frères
- I have just offered two of them to the spirits of my brothers
Further reading
[edit]- “mânes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.