lunaticus

Latin

Etymology

From lūna +‎ -āticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luːˈnaː.ti.kus/, [ɫ̪uːˈnäːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈna.ti.kus/, [luˈnäːt̪ikus]

Adjective

lūnāticus (feminine lūnātica, neuter lūnāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of, or living on, the moon
2. epileptic, lunatic, moonstruck, crazy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lūnāticus	lūnātica	lūnāticum		lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnātica
Genitive	lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnāticī		lūnāticōrum	lūnāticārum	lūnāticōrum
Dative	lūnāticō		lūnāticō		lūnāticīs
Accusative	lūnāticum	lūnāticam	lūnāticum		lūnāticōs	lūnāticās	lūnātica
Ablative	lūnāticō	lūnāticā	lūnāticō		lūnāticīs
Vocative	lūnātice	lūnātica	lūnāticum		lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnātica

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Corsican: lunaticu, lanaticu
  • Old French: lunage
  • ⇒ Old Occitan: lunajos
  • Romanian: lunatic, lunatec
  • Sardinian: lunadigu
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: llunàtic
  • → Italian: lunatico
  • → Middle French: lunatique
    • → Middle English: lunatik, lunatick, lunatijk, lunatyk, lunatyke; lynatik
      • English: lunatic
    • French: lunatique
      • → Romanian: lunatic
    • Norman: leunatique
  • → Portuguese: lunático
  • → Sicilian: lunàticu
  • → Spanish: lunático

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lūnātĭcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 455

Further reading

• “lunaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lunaticus 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)
• lunaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.