vesania
English
Etymology
From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.
Noun
vesania (uncountable)
- Madness, insanity, mental derangement.
- 2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)
Latin
Etymology
From vēsānus (“mad, insane”), from vē (“out”) + sānus (“sane, healthy”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯eːˈsaː.ni.a/, [u̯eːˈs̠äːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈsa.ni.a/, [veˈs̬äːniä]
Noun
vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vēsānia | vēsāniae |
Genitive | vēsāniae | vēsāniārum |
Dative | vēsāniae | vēsāniīs |
Accusative | vēsāniam | vēsāniās |
Ablative | vēsāniā | vēsāniīs |
Vocative | vēsānia | vēsāniae |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: vesania
References
- “vesania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vesania”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vesania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Noun
vesania f (plural vesanias)
- madness, insanity
- 2015 July 26, “Recuperar África”, in El País[1]:
- Como lo es Nigeria, donde la vesania de Boko Haram se extiende a Chad y Camerún.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- rage
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