amentia

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin āmentia (“madness; senselessness”), from āmēns (“mad, insane; foolish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + mēns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈmɛnʃə/, /əˈmɛnʃə/

Noun

amentia (uncountable)

1. Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped.

Translations

the state of being mentally handicapped

• Bulgarian: вродено слабоумие (vrodeno slaboumie)
• Italian: amenza f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: amência (pt) f
• Russian: слабоу́мие (ru) n (slaboúmije), аме́нция (ru) f (améncija)

Anagrams

• aminate, animate, metania

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Latin

Etymology

From amēns (“mad, insane; foolish”), from ab- (“from, away from”) + mēns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aːˈmen.ti.a/, [äːˈmɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈmen.t͡si.a/, [äˈmɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

āmentia f (genitive āmentiae); first declension

1. The state of being out of one's senses; madness, insanity.
2. Folly, stupidity, senselessness.
3. Malice, malignity.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āmentia	āmentiae
Genitive	āmentiae	āmentiārum
Dative	āmentiae	āmentiīs
Accusative	āmentiam	āmentiās
Ablative	āmentiā	āmentiīs
Vocative	āmentia	āmentiae

Descendants

• English: amentia
• Italian: amenza
• Russian: аме́нция f (améncija)

References

• “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amentia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• amentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.