insania

See also: insânia

Italian

Noun

insania f (plural insanie)

1. insanity, madness

   Synonyms: pazzia, follia

Related terms

• insano

Anagrams

• asinina

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈsaː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈsaː.ni.a]

Noun

īnsānia f (genitive īnsāniae); first declension

1. madness, insanity
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.42:

     “Et procul: ‘Ō miserī, quae tanta īnsānia, cīvēs?’”

     “And from a distance, [Laocoön exclaims]: ‘O poor citizens [of Troy], what madness [is] this?’” – Aeneas

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnsānia	īnsāniae
genitive	īnsāniae	īnsāniārum
dative	īnsāniae	īnsāniīs
accusative	īnsāniam	īnsāniās
ablative	īnsāniā	īnsāniīs
vocative	īnsānia	īnsāniae

Related terms

• īnsānus

Descendants

• Galician: saña
• Portuguese: sanha
• Spanish: saña

References

• “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insania”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “insania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insania”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsania.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsanja/ [ĩnˈsa.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: in‧sa‧nia

Noun

insania f (plural insanias)

1. insanity

   Synonym: vesania

Further reading

• “insania”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024