maniaとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
• ハイフネーション: ma‧ni‧a
• 韻: -eɪniə

名詞

mania (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 manias)

1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, page 233:

     One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer...

   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

3. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
   • 2004 March, Berrios, G. E., “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, DOI:10.1177/0957154X04041829, PMID 15104084, pages 105–124:

関連する語

• dipsomania
• manic
• maniac
• megalomania

Further reading

• mania at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima

Latin

語源 1

From Ancient Greek μανία (manía).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/, [ˈmäniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]

名詞

mania f (genitive maniae); first declension

1. craze, mania, madness

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• Italian: mania
• Old Portuguese: manna
• Romanian: mânie
• → Albanian: mëri, mëni (disputed)
• → Catalan: mania
• → Danish: mani
• → Dutch: manie
• → English: mania
• → Finnish: mania
• → French: manie
• → German: Manie
• → Irish: máine
• → Norwegian: mani
• → Polish: mania
• → Portuguese: mania
• → Spanish: manía
• → Swedish: mani

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ni.a/, [ˈmäːniä]

形容詞

mānia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mānis

参照

• “mania”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• mania in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mania”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

接尾辞

-mania

1. compulsion or obsession.

使用する際の注意点

Often used with the interfix -o- to ease pronunciation.

派生語

• Category:English words suffixed with -mania

関連する語

• -mane
• -maniac

参考

• mania
• maniac

アナグラム

• Amina, Maina, amain, amnia, anima