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Manius (praenomen)
:''This page is about the Latin praenomen. For a list of prominent Romans with this name, see Manius (disambiguation).''
Manius (; (:ˈmaːnɪ.ʊs)) is a Latin ''praenomen'', or personal name, which was used throughout the period of the Roman Republic, and well into imperial times. The feminine form is ''Mania''. The name was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic ''gentes Manlia'' and ''Manilia''. Manius was originally abbreviated with an archaic five-stroke "M" (in Unicode ), which was not otherwise used in Latin. In place of this letter, the praenomen came to be abbreviated M'.〔''Dictionary of Greek & Roman Biography & Mythology''〕〔Mika Kajava, ''Roman Female Praenomina: Studies in the Nomenclature of Roman Women'' (1994)〕
Although regularly used by certain ''gentes'', such as the Acilii, Aemilii, Aquilii, Papirii, Sergii, and Valerii, Manius was not used by the majority of families, and was never particularly common. Between ten and twelve other praenomina were used more frequently. It became less common during the period of the Roman Empire, eventually falling out of use.〔〔''Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft''〕
==Origin and meaning of the name==
The Roman scholar Sextus Pompeius Festus believed that Manius was derived from ''mane'', "the morning", and therefore was originally given to children born in the morning. It has also been proposed that the name may have been given to children born in the month of Februarius, the month sacred to the ''manes'', the souls of the dead. However, Chase proposes that it instead derives from the archaic adjective ''manus'', meaning "good". The name's superficial similarity to ''manes'' may have been one reason why Manius was relatively uncommon.〔Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome by Paulus Diaconus〕〔''Oxford Classical Dictionary'', 3rd Ed. (1996)〕〔George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII (1897)〕
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