manus

See also: Appendix:Variations of "manus"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”). Doublet of mano.

Noun

manus (plural manus)

1. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. (obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Derived terms

• amanuensis
• Bimana
• bimanous
• command
• immane
• longimanous
• mainpast
• mainport
• maintain
• manacle
• manciple
• maniable
• manichord
• manicure
• manifest
• maniform
• manilla
• maniple
• manitrunk
• manmotive
• manner
• manoeuvre
• manual
• manuduct
• manufact
• manufaction
• manufacture
• manumotor
• manuprisor
• manuscribe
• manuscript
• manuscription
• manutergium
• manu-tract
• massage
• masturbate
• mortmain
• pedimane
• Quadrumana
• signum manus

 

Translations

hand — see hand

Roman law: power over other people

• Latin: manus (la) f

Etymology 2

Noun

manus

1. plural of manu

Anagrams

• Suman, Usman, namus, suman

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• manusz

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani manuś, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒnuʃ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧nus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

Noun

manus (plural manusok)

1. (colloquial) guy, man, bloke
   • 2012, Judit Szántó (translator), Kathy Reichs, Csont és bőr (Death du Jour), Ulpius-ház →ISBN, chapter 11, page 169:

     A manus bólintott, és hűséges kutyaszemmel tapadt az arcára. ¶ – Viszlát – biccentett kecsesen Harry, mire a manus vállat vont, és beleveszett a tömegbe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	manus	manusok
accusative	manust	manusokat
dative	manusnak	manusoknak
instrumental	manussal	manusokkal
causal-final	manusért	manusokért
translative	manussá	manusokká
terminative	manusig	manusokig
essive-formal	manusként	manusokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	manusban	manusokban
superessive	manuson	manusokon
adessive	manusnál	manusoknál
illative	manusba	manusokba
sublative	manusra	manusokra
allative	manushoz	manusokhoz
elative	manusból	manusokból
delative	manusról	manusokról
ablative	manustól	manusoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	manusé	manusoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	manuséi	manusokéi

Possessive forms of manus
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	manusom	manusaim
2nd person sing.	manusod	manusaid
3rd person sing.	manusa	manusai
1st person plural	manusunk	manusaink
2nd person plural	manusotok	manusaitok
3rd person plural	manusuk	manusaik

Latin

manus (a hand)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *manus, further etymology is disputed. Possible cognates include Proto-Germanic *mundō (> Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector”), whence modern English mound), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”) (a hapax legomenon of dubious authenticity) and Hittite [script needed] (manii̯aḫḫ-ⁱ, “to distribute, entrust”).

Proposals for further etymology include:

• a Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”), favoured by Mallory and D. Q. Adams
• a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u-, with a later change from mo- to ma- in an open syllable, possibly connected to Old Irish muin (“protection”) too, favoured by Schrijver and de Vaan (although de Vaan finds the Irish term semantically difficult).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmänʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmäːnus]

Noun

manus f (genitive manūs); fourth declension

1. hand
2. (figuratively) bravery, valor
3. (figuratively) violence, fighting
4. (metonymically) handwriting
5. a side, part, faction
6. a stake (in dice)
7. a thrust with a sword
8. paw of an animal
9. trunk of an elephant
10. branch of a tree
11. (military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
12. group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers

    Manus gladiatorum oppido eruperat.

    The company of gladiators had made a sally from the town.

13. labor
14. power, might
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:2:

      Et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae.

      "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand."

15. (law) legal power of a man over his wife
16. (law) an arrest
17. group of people
18. band

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	manus	manūs
genitive	manūs	manuum
dative	manuī	manibus
accusative	manum	manūs
ablative	manū	manibus
vocative	manus	manūs

Synonyms

• (hand): hir, ir (both rare)

Derived terms

• adminiculum
• āridīs manibus
• comminus
• ēminus
• mandō
• manicula
• manicus
• manifestus
• manipulus
• mansuēs
• mansuescō
• mantica
• manū mīlitārī
• manua
• manuālis
• manuārius
• manuātus
• manuballista
• manubia
• manubrium
• manucium
• manufactilis
• manufactus
• manuinspex
• manulea
• manūmitto
• manuopera
• manuor
• manupretium
• manus extrema
• manutergium
• manutigium
• masturbor

 

Related terms

• mancus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance: (via an assumed proto-form *mana)
  • Aromanian: mãnã
  • Istro-Romanian: măre
  • Megleno-Romanian: mǫnă
  • Romanian: mână
• Dalmatian:
  • mun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: manu

    Gallurese: manu

    Sassarese: manu

  • Italian: mano
  • Neapolitan: mana

    Tarantino: mane, màne

  • Sicilian: manu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: manu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: man
    • Piedmontese: man
    • Romagnol: mân
  • Friulian: man
  • Istriot: man
  • Ladin: man
  • Romansch: maun
  • Venetan: man
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: man
    • Catalan: mà
  • Franco-Provençal: man
  • Old French: main (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: man
    • Occitan: man
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: mano
    • Aragonese: man
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: mano
    • Extremaduran: manu
    • Mirandese: mano
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mão
    • Fala: man
    • Galician: man, mao
    • Portuguese: mão (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: mano
    • Spanish: mano (see there for further descendants)
• Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *mania
  • *manizāre
• Borrowings:
  • → English: manus
  • → Esperanto: mano
  • → Ido: manuo
  • → Interlingua: mano

See also

• pēs

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-no- (“good”), from *meh₂- (“timely, opportune”). Compare immānis (“vast, monstrous”), Old Irish maith (“good”), Welsh mad (“id”), Breton mat (“id”), as well as English matins and mature.

Alternative forms

• mānis

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.nus/, [ˈmäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmäːnus]

Adjective

mānus (feminine māna, neuter mānum); first/second-declension adjective

2. (Old Latin) good
   • c. 560 CE – 636 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Origines 5.30.14:

     Māne lūx mātūra et plēna, nec iam crepusculum. Et dictum māne ā mānō; mānum enim antīquī bonum dīcēbant. Quid enim melius lūce?

     By morning (māne) the light is ripe and full, no longer dusk. And the word māne is from the word mānus, for those of old called what's good mānus. For what is better than light?

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mānus	māna	mānum		mānī	mānae	māna
genitive	mānī	mānae	mānī		mānōrum	mānārum	mānōrum
dative	mānō	mānae	mānō		mānīs
accusative	mānum	mānam	mānum		mānōs	mānās	māna
ablative	mānō	mānā	mānō		mānīs
vocative	māne	māna	mānum		mānī	mānae	māna

Derived terms

• māne

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nuːs/, [ˈmänuːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmäːnus]

Noun

manūs

1. inflection of manus:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• “manus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “manus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• manus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• manus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
    
  • to make not the slightest effort; not to stir a finger: manum non vertere alicuius rei causa
    
  • to lay violent hands on a person: manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to raise one's hands in astonishment: manus tollere
    
  • to own oneself conquered, surrender: manus dare
    
  • to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem
    
  • to hold something in one's hand: manu or in manu tenere aliquid
    
  • to pass a thing from hand to hand: de manu in manus or per manus tradere aliquid
    
  • to come into some one's hands: in alicuius manus venire, pervenire
    
  • to fall unexpectedly into some one's hands: in alicuius manus incidere
    
  • to take something into one's hands: in manus(m) sumere aliquid
    
  • to carry some one away in one's arms: inter manus auferre aliquem
    
  • to lay hands on oneself: manus, vim sibi afferre
    
  • to be in a person's power: in manu, in potestate alicuius situm, positum esse
    
  • to take up a book in one's hands: librum in manus sumere
    
  • to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • to kill with violence: vim et manus afferre alicui (Catil. 1. 8. 21)
    
  • to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere
    
  • to shake hands with voters in canvassing: manus prensare (De Or. 1. 24. 112)
    
  • a town artificially fortified: oppidum manu (opere) munitum
    
  • to come to close quarters: manum (us) conserere cum hoste
    
  • the fighting is now at close quarters: res ad manus venit
    
  • personally brave: manu fortis
    
  • to throw grappling irons on board; to board: copulas, manus ferreas (in navem) inicere
    
  • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
    
  • (ambiguous) to have something in one's hands, on hand: in manibus habere aliquid (also metaphorically)
    
  • (ambiguous) to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to let go from one's hands: e manibus dimittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to carry in one's arms: in manibus aliquem gestare
    
  • (ambiguous) to slip, escape from the hands: e (de) manibus effugere, elābi
    
  • (ambiguous) to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have success in one's grasp: fortunam in manibus habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to let success slip through one's fingers: fortunam ex manibus dimittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: liber mihi est in manibus
    
  • (ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: librum in manibus habere (Acad. 1. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) the book, speech can easily be obtained: liber, oratio in manibus est
    
  • (ambiguous) to lay down a book (vid. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...): librum de manibus ponere
    
  • (ambiguous) to wrest weapons from some one's hands: extorquere arma e manibus
    
  • (ambiguous) to not let the enemy escape: hostem e manibus non dimittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to escape from the hands of the enemy: effugere, elābi e manibus hostium
    
  • (ambiguous) to let the enemy escape: dimittere e manibus hostes
    
  • (ambiguous) to rescue some one from the hands of the enemy: eripere aliquem e manibus hostium
    
• “manus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 740

Latvian

Pronoun

manus

1. accusative plural masculine of mans

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of manuskript.

Noun

manus n

1. Clipping of manuskript (“screenplay”).

Declension

Declension of manus

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	manus	manus
	definite	manuset	manusets
plural	indefinite	manus	manus
	definite	manusen	manusens

Derived terms

• filmmanus
• manusbearbetning
• manusförfattare
• manusidé
• manusstopp
• originalmanus

Further reading

• manus in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker