# manus
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

manus (plural manus)
* (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
* (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
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

manus
* plural of manu

### Anagrams

* Suman, Usman, namus, suman

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* manusz

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɒnuʃ]
* Hyphenation: ma‧nus
* Rhymes: -uʃ

### Noun

manus (plural manusok)
* (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
## Latin
### 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: /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmänʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmäːnus]

#### Noun

manus f (genitive manūs); fourth declension
* hand
* (figuratively) bravery, valor
* (figuratively) violence, fighting
* (metonymically) handwriting
* a side, part, faction
* a stake (in dice)
* a thrust with a sword
* paw of an animal
* trunk of an elephant
* branch of a tree
* (military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
* group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers
    Manus gladiatorum oppido eruperat.The company of gladiators had made a sally from the town.
* labor
* 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."
* (law) legal power of a man over his wife
* (law) an arrest
* group of people
* band

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### 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:
** Old 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: /ˈmaː.nus/, [ˈmäːnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈma.nus/, [ˈmäːnus]

#### Adjective

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

##### Derived terms

* māne

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

manūs
* inflection of manus:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### References

* ↑ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pages 254-55
* ↑ Peter Schrijver (1991) The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin (doctoral dissertation) (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 458
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “manus, -ūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 363–364
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mānus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 364

### 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, 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
* accusative plural masculine of mans

## Swedish
### Etymology

Clipping of manuskript.

### Noun

manus n
* Clipping of manuskript (“screenplay”).

#### Derived terms

* filmmanus
* manusbearbetning
* manusförfattare
* manusidé
* manusstopp
* originalmanus

### Further reading

* manus in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker