maneries

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Old French maniere (Middle French maniere, French manière), Italian maniera

Noun[edit]

maneriēs f (genitive maneriēī); fifth declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) manner
  2. (Medieval Latin) sort, kind
    • between 1302 and 1305, Dante Alighieri, de vulgari eloquentia, book 2, chapter VII, number 2. In: Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia, edited and translated by Steven Botterill, 1996, p. 66f.:
      Testamur proinde incipientes non minimum opus esse rationis discretionem vocabulorum habere, quoniam perplures eorum maneries inveniri posse videmus.
      I shall begin by admitting that classifying words is not the least demanding of the tasks that exercise our reason, since we can plainly see that many varieties are to be found.

Declension[edit]

Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative maneriēs maneriēs
Genitive maneriēī maneriērum
Dative maneriēī maneriēbus
Accusative maneriem maneriēs
Ablative maneriē maneriēbus
Vocative maneriēs maneriēs

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