manes.
souls or spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
Meaning & usage
souls or spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
the spirit of a specific dead person
remains, the ashes or corpse of a dead person
Hades, the netherworld
Where this word comes from
Substantive use of the masculine plural of Old Latin mānis (“good”), so originally "the good ones". For the sense development, compare Northern Kurdish meçêtir, yên ji me çêtir (“jinn, ghost, lit. "the ones better than us"”)
nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine singular of mānis (“good”)
Where this word comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
second-person singular present active indicative of maneō
Where this word comes from
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