manita

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.

one of the hand-like flowers of the manita tree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈniːtə/

Noun

manita (plural manitas)

1. (rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
   • 1828, Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts, page 230:

     […] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists.
     Manita means a little hand.

   • 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 321, page 112:

     Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.

   • 1838, John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants, page 159:

     The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.

   • circa 1846, Traveling Sketches, from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the Rural Repository (1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181:

     […] with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.

   • 1852, Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850:

     Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.

   • 1928, Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage, page 74:

     Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”

   • 2000, Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel:

     A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens — […]

Synonyms

• Devil's hand tree, devil's hand tree; Mexican hand tree; handflower, handflower tree; macpalxochitl

Translations

Mexican hand tree — see Mexican hand tree

Anagrams

• Maniat, Mantia, animat, manati

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧ta

Noun

manita

1. the female participant of a manito manita

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈnita/ [maˈni.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ma‧ni‧ta

Etymology 1

From mano +‎ -ita. Football sense from the five fingers representing the five scored goals.

Noun

manita f (plural manitas)

1. diminutive of mano, little hand

   Synonym: manito

2. (soccer) wave (to show the hand wide open to the rival public) to indicate that the match was won 5-0 or 0-5

Derived terms

• hacer manitas (touching and carressing each other's hands)

Etymology 2

Noun

manita f (plural manitas)

1. Clipping of hermanita.

Further reading

• “manita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Turkish

Etymology

First used in 1882, as Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (mantinota, “mistress”), from Italian mantenuta (“kept woman”). Compare with mantenuto (“kept man”).

Noun

manita (definite accusative manitayı, plural manitalar)

1. girl friend, chick
   • 1882, Ahmed Midhat Efendi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     mantinota: "metres, sürekli görülen hayat kadını"

     mantinota: "mistress, regularly seen courtesan"

2. lover (unisex)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	manita
Definite accusative	manitayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	manita	manitalar
Definite accusative	manitayı	manitaları
Dative	manitaya	manitalara
Locative	manitada	manitalarda
Ablative	manitadan	manitalardan
Genitive	manitanın	manitaların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular manitam manitalarım 2nd singular manitan manitaların 3rd singular manitası manitaları 1st plural manitamız manitalarımız 2nd plural manitanız manitalarınız 3rd plural manitaları manitaları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular manitamı manitalarımı 2nd singular manitanı manitalarını 3rd singular manitasını manitalarını 1st plural manitamızı manitalarımızı 2nd plural manitanızı manitalarınızı 3rd plural manitalarını manitalarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular manitama manitalarıma 2nd singular manitana manitalarına 3rd singular manitasına manitalarına 1st plural manitamıza manitalarımıza 2nd plural manitanıza manitalarınıza 3rd plural manitalarına manitalarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular manitamda manitalarımda 2nd singular manitanda manitalarında 3rd singular manitasında manitalarında 1st plural manitamızda manitalarımızda 2nd plural manitanızda manitalarınızda 3rd plural manitalarında manitalarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular manitamdan manitalarımdan 2nd singular manitandan manitalarından 3rd singular manitasından manitalarından 1st plural manitamızdan manitalarımızdan 2nd plural manitanızdan manitalarınızdan 3rd plural manitalarından manitalarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular manitamın manitalarımın 2nd singular manitanın manitalarının 3rd singular manitasının manitalarının 1st plural manitamızın manitalarımızın 2nd plural manitanızın manitalarınızın 3rd plural manitalarının manitalarının
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular manitayım manitalarım 2nd singular manitasın manitalarsın 3rd singular manita manitadır manitalar manitalardır 1st plural manitayız manitalarız 2nd plural manitasınız manitalarsınız 3rd plural manitalar manitalardır