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Maine¹

  • /mɛn/
  • /meɪn/
  • /meɪn/ UK, US

Sounds like main, mane · Rhymes with -eɪn

Where it comes from

The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.

proper noun

  1. error lua exec A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
  2. error lua exec A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland. These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1
  3. error lua exec A town in New York.
  4. error lua exec A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
  5. error lua exec A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
  6. error lua exec University of Maine.

Maine²

  • /mɛːn/

Where it comes from

From French Maine, from earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne. Unrelated to the French province of the same name.

proper noun

  1. A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.

Maine³

proper noun

  1. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
  2. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.

Maine⁴

Where it comes from

From Irish An Mhaing

proper noun

  1. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.

Maine⁵

Where it comes from

From Old Irish Maine.

proper noun

  1. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.

Maine⁶

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Main

maine⁷

noun maines

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of main.main No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

adjective

  1. not comparable, obsolete Obsolete form of main.main

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