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μῆνις. ὁ μὲν Ἀπίων μάνις· οἱ γὰρ ὀργιζόμενοί πως μαίνονται
Translation (En)
Mēnis "wrath": Apion writes manis "madness", because those who are angry are in a way mad (mainontai)
Parallels
Hesychius, Lexicon, mu 1225 (Ἀπίων, μάνης· οἱ γὰρ ὀργιζόμενοι μαίνονται); Etym. Parvum, mu 32 (Μηνιεῖ· ἀπὸ τοῦ μαίνω τὸ ὀργίζομαι, οὗ ὁ μέλλων μανῶ, ὁ δεύτερος ἀό ριστος ἔμανον καὶ ἔμηνα· ἐκ τούτου μῆνις, μηνίω); Epimerismi homerici ad Il. 1.1 (Ἢ μάνις τις οὖσα παρὰ τὴν μανίαν γέγονε μῆνις· ἐοίκασι γὰρ τοῖς μαινομένοις οἱ ὀργιζόμενοι); Etym. Gudianum, mu, p. 391, 50 (Μῆνις, μάνις τίς ἐστι· παρὰ τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ τὴν μανίαν· ἐοίκασι γὰρ μαινομένοις οἱ ὀργιζόμενοι· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἐμμένειν τῷ μηνιῶντι καὶ ὀργιζομένῳ); Scholia in Sophoclem, Aj. 41a (scholia recentiora) (χόλος, θυμός, μῆνις, ὀργὴ διαφέρει. χόλος μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ χέεσθαι ὅλος (leg. ὅλως) ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ χολή· μῆνις παρὰ τὸ μαίνω, τὸ ὀργίζομαι· κότος παρὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν αὐτῷ· θυμὸς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ θύω, τὸ ὁρμῶ)
Comment
This etymology starts from the first aorist ἔμηνα of the active mainō "to make s.o. mad" (see Etym. Parvum) as wrath makes you mad. It seeks support in a Doric form mānis, which has the same [a] as mainomai "I am mad", mania "madness", and on the regular alternation between [ā] and [ă], yielding in Ionic an alternation between [ē] and [ă].