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Maine en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /mɛn/
  • /meɪn/ (UK, US)
  • (US) audio
  • /meɪn/

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  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 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter. 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
  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.

Deriveds

Maine-et-Loire · Haut-Maine · Mainiote · Bas-Maine · Mainiot · ME · Mainer · Maine Coon

Holonyms

New England

Translations (48)

nv Méíin hahoodzo (US State) · cmn 緬因州 /缅因州 (US State) · el Μαιν (former province in France) · sv Maine (US State) · lo ເມນ (US State) · lo ເມນ (former province in France) · mr मेन (former province in France) · hi मेन (US State) · fr Maine (US State) · pl Maine (former province in France) · de Maine (US-Bundesstaat) (US State) · ja メイン州 (former province in France) · it Maine (US State) · fi Maine (US State) · cs Maine (US State) · fr Maine (former province in France) · mk Мејн (US State) · ka მენი (US State) · cmn 曼恩 (former province in France) · oc Maine (US State) · yi מעין (US State) · es Maine (US State) · pl Maine (US State) · ru Мен (former province in France) · gl Maine (US State) · km មេន (US State) · pt Maine (US State) · fi Maine (former province in France) · pt Maine (former province in France) · bg Мейн (US State) · el Μέιν (US State) · oc Maine (former province in France) · ru Мэн (US State) · mr मेन (US State) · da Maine (US State) · nl Maine (US State) · uk Мен (US State) · tr Maine (US State) · ko 메인 (US State) · ja メイン州 (US State) · la Cenomannica (US State) · ar مَيْن (US State) · cs Maine (former province in France) · eo Majno (US State) · mk Мен (former province in France) · lv Meina (US State) · th เมน (US State) · li Meen (former province in France)

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Maine en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /mɛːn/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.

Deriveds

Maine-et-Loire

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