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manner¹

  • /ˈmænə/ UK
  • /ˈmænɚ/ US

Sounds like manor, manna · Rhymes with -ænə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English manere, maner, from Anglo-Norman manere, from Old French maniere, from Vulgar Latin *manāria, from feminine of Latin manuarius (“belonging to the hand”), from manus (“hand”). Compare French manière, Italian mannaia (“ax, axe”), Portuguese maneira and maneiro (“handy, portable”), Romanian mâner (“handle”), and Spanish manera. Displaced native Old English hād (“nature, manner”).

noun manners

  1. Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything. The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
  2. Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing. His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.
  3. One's customary method of acting; habit. These people have strange manners.
  4. Good, polite behaviour. Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father’s gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. Mr. Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was.
  5. The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  6. A certain degree or measure. It is in a manner done already.
  7. Sort; kind; style. All manner of persons participate.
  8. Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

verb manners · mannering · mannered

  1. transitive To instill manners into. They are there to manner a child's natural abilities. They are culture club authorities and representatives. They teach children appropriate public (and private) behavior; […]

manner²

  • /ˈmænə/ UK
  • /ˈmænɚ/ US

Sounds like manor, manna · Rhymes with -ænə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mon-

Proto-Germanic *mann-

Proto-West Germanic *mann

Old English mann

Middle English man

English man

English -er

English manner

From man + -er.

noun manners

  1. in compounds, rare Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people. It was rather ironic that my first fire in every one of my three smokejunping ^([sic]) years was a high-mountain two-manner . . . and they all were on the Flathead National Forest […]

Manner³

Where it comes from

From the Norman surname, Mesnières in France, itself from a derivative of Latin manere (“to stay”).

proper noun Manners

  1. A surname.

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