manes

Meaning

Noun

1. (declension-3) souls or spirits of the dead, shades, ghosts
2. (declension-3) the spirit of a specific dead person
3. (declension-3) remains, the ashes or corpse of a dead person
4. (declension-3) Hades, the netherworld

Adj

nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine singular of mānis (“good”)

Verb

second-person singular present active indicative of maneō

Translations

mânes

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈmaː.neːs]

Etymology

Substantive use of the masculine plural of Old Latin mānis (“good”), so originally "the good ones".