Maine

The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name; unrelated to the name of the river that flows through it. 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.^[1]

• (province of France):
  • IPA^(key): /mɛn/, /meɪn/
• (place in the United States):
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /meɪn/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: main, mane

Maine

2. A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
4. A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.

   Holonym: New England

   • 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

5. A town in New York.
6. A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
7. A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
8. University of Maine.

Divisions of the United States of America in English (layout · text)

States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

Federal district: Washington, D.C.

Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands

• Maine, Outagamie County, Wisconsin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maine, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maine River (Maine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛːn/

Maine

2. 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.

• Maine-et-Loire

Maine

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.

• Maine, Marathon County, Wisconsin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Irish An Mhaing

Maine

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

• Castlemaine

From Old Irish Maine.

Maine

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

Maine

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

• minæ, minae, I mean, amine, animé, -amine, manie, Emina, anime

Borrowed from French Maine.

Maine ?

1. Maine (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)
2. Maine (A traditional region of France, now in Pays de la Loire region.)
3. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• Maine i Loira

Borrowed from English Maine.

Maine (genitive Maines)

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

From English Maine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmei̯n/, [ˈme̞i̯n] (inflects like risti)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯ne/, [ˈmɑ̝i̯ne̞] (rare)
• Rhymes: -ein

Maine

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)
2. Maine (a former province of Pays de la Loire, France)

• Minea, Naemi, anime

• IPA^(key): /mɛn/

• Audio:

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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.

Maine m

2. Maine (a former province of Pays de la Loire, France)
3. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

From earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne.

Maine f

1. Maine (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)

• Maine-et-Loire

• anime, animé, en ami, manie, manié, menai

• Audio:

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Maine

1. (archaic) dative singular of Main

• Meine

• IPA^(key): /ˈmai̯.ne/, [ˈmɐj.ne], [ˈmɛj.ne] (rapid speech)

Maine

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• Hawaiian Language Committee, compilers (2003), Māmaka Kaiao: A Modern Hawaiian Vocabulary‎^[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press

Borrowed from English Maine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛjn/, /ˈmejn/
• Rhymes: -ɛjn, -ejn

Maine m

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• ameni, anime, emani, emina, manie, menai

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛjn/
• Rhymes: -ɛjn
• Syllabification: Maine

Unadapted borrowing from English Maine, from French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.

Maine n (indeclinable)

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

Borrowed from French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.

Maine n (indeclinable)

1. Maine (a former province of Pays de la Loire, France)

• Maine in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from French Maine.

Maine ?

1. Maine (a former province of Pays de la Loire, France)

Maine m

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• IPA^(key): [mejn]

Maine m inan (genitive singular Mainu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• “Maine”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French Maine.

Maine ?

1. Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)

• Maine on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es