Manes Definition

mānēz, mänās
noun
In ancient Roman belief, the deified souls of the dead, esp. of dead ancestors.
Webster's New World
The soul or spirit of a dead person.
Webster's New World
The revered spirit of one who has died.
American Heritage

Plural form of mane.

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Origin of Manes

  • Middle English from Latin mānēs perhaps from mānis good mā-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin manes (“spirits of the dead").

    From Wiktionary

Manes Sentence Examples

  • The Romans, as we remarked above, distinguished between the Lemures or wandering mischievous ghosts and the Manes snugly interred and tended in the cemetery which was part of every Italian settlement.

  • The word Manes signified the friendly ancestral ghosts of a Roman household.

  • The later explanation that Summanus is a contraction from Summus Manium (the greatest of the Manes), and that he is to be identified with Dis Pater, is now generally rejected.

  • Thus Herculi from Hercules and manubria from manes are equally regarded as examples of declinatio.

  • Modern painting among the Czechs begins with Josef Manes (1826-71) and Czermak (1831-78), and Ales.

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