manes

[mey-neez; Latin mah-nes] /ˈmeɪ niz; Latin ˈmɑ nɛs/
noun
1.
(used with a plural verb) Roman Religion. the souls of the dead; shades.
2.
(used with a singular verb) the spirit or shade of a particular dead person.
Also, Ma·nes.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English < Latin mānēs (plural); akin to Latin mānis, mānus good

Manes

[mey-neez] /ˈmeɪ niz/
noun
1.
a.d. 216?–276? Persian prophet: founder of Manicheanism.
Also called Manicheus, Mani.

mane

[meyn] /meɪn/
noun
1.
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
2.
Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.
Origin
before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn
Related forms
maned, adjective
maneless, adjective
unmaned, adjective
Examples from the web for manes
  • For their money, they want big males with manes, not females or the scrawny subadults that anger farmers by killing livestock.
  • Biologists think males evolved their impressive manes in part to provide neck protection during fights, among other reasons.
  • Back on dry land, the ponies shake the water from their manes.
  • It was really awesome because they were two brothers and both of them had big manes.
British Dictionary definitions for manes

manes

/ˈmɑːneɪz; Latin ˈmɑːnɛs/
plural noun (sometimes capital) (in Roman legend)
1.
the spirits of the dead, often revered as minor deities
2.
(functioning as sing) the shade of a dead person
Word Origin
C14: from Latin, probably: the good ones, from Old Latin mānus good

Manes

/ˈmeɪniːz/
noun
1.
See Mani

mane

/meɪn/
noun
1.
the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
2.
long thick human hair
Derived Forms
maned, adjective
maneless, adjective
Word Origin
Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace
Word Origin and History for manes

Manes

pl.

"Gods of the Lower World," in Roman religion, from Latin manes "departed spirit, ghost, shade of the dead, deified spirits of the underworld," usually said to be from Latin manus "good," thus properly "the good gods," a euphemistic word, but Tucker suggests a possible connection instead to macer, thus "the thin or unsubstantial ones."

mane

n.

Old English manu "mane," from Proto-Germanic *mano (cf. Old Norse mön, Old Frisian mana, Middle Dutch mane, Dutch manen, Old High German mana, German Mähne "mane"), from PIE *mon- "neck, nape of the neck" (cf. Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Old English mene "necklace," Latin monile "necklace," Welsh mwng "mane," Old Church Slavonic monisto, Old Irish muin "neck").