adverb
māne1
māne (not comparable)
Classical[ˈmaː.nɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈmaː.ne]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablein the morning
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
prīma pars diēī, cum sōl oritur.māne n (indēcl.) — in Mille Verba, Tempus et Numerī
prīmā lūce, tempore mātūtīnōmāne — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 17, 21
stay
manē — in Seneca, ch. VIII
māne, indecl. (archaic abl. mani, like luci, vesperi:
I.
a mani ad vesperum, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 80; id. Poen. 3, 3, 37), n. old Lat. manus, good; whence immanis; cf. Manes. I. The morning, morn. As subst., mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose:
noctes vigilabat ad ipsum Mane, Hor. S. 1, 3, 18: a primo mane opus aggredi, at the earliest dawn, Col. 11, 1, 14: mane novum, Verg. G. 3, 325: (litteras) multo mane mihi dedit, very early in the morning, Cic. Att. 5, 4, 1: mane totum dormies, Mart. 1, 49, 36: mane erat, Ov. F. 1, 547: a mane usque ad vesperam, Suet. Calig. 18: a mane diei, Auct. B. Afr. 42.—II. As adv., in the morning, early in the morning (freq. and class.):
postridie ejus diei, mane, Caes. B. G. 4, 13; 5, 10, 1: hodie mane, this morning, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1: cras mane, to-morrow morning, Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 46: hodierno die, mane, Cic. Cat. 3, 9, 21.—Connected with other adverbs: nimis paene mane est, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 33: bene mane, very early in the morning, Cic. Att. 4, 9, 2; 14, 18, 1; 10, 16, 1: primo mane, Just. 1, 10; Col. 12, 1, 3: tam mane, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 15: plane mane, quite early in the morning, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
māne
indecl n., the morning, morn: noctes vigilabat ad ipsum Mane, H.: mane novum, V.: multo mane, very early in the morning: mane erat, O.
māne adv.
1 mane, in the morning, early in the morning : postridie eius diei mane, Cs.: hodie mane, this morning : cras mane, to-morrow morning , T.: mane Kalendis Dec.: bene mane, very early : salutantes, V.
Origins
A derivative of mānus (“good”); see there for more. Related to English matins and mature.