mania – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of mania

Noun: mania
Gender: f Hyphenation: ma‧nì‧a mà‧nia
Singular fmania
Plural fmanie

Sample Sentences

  • 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.) [1867, Costantino Medici, Leggenda di san Domenico [Legend of Saint Dominic], Venice: A. Clementi, page 121:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”). See: Latin Nouns 'mania', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μανία'.

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