mania
Portuguese
noun
Definitions
- mania excessive or unreasonable desire
- vice bad habit
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mania borrowed from Ancient Greek μανία (madness).
Origin
Ancient Greek
μανία
Gloss
madness
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mania English
- mania Finnish
- mania Latin
- mania Italian
- -manie Dutch, Flemish
- manie French
- -manía Spanish, Castilian
- manía Spanish, Castilian
- μαίνομαι Ancient Greek
- μανία Ancient Greek
- *men- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- mani Norwegian Bokmål
- mani Norwegian Nynorsk
- máine Irish
- manio Esperanto
- mania Catalan, Valencian
- mânie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μανία Greek (modern)
- μανιακός Greek (modern)
- mëri Albanian
- მანია Georgian