vesania

English

Etymology

From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.

Noun

vesania (uncountable)

1. 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)

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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

1. madness, insanity

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

• vēsāniō
• vēsānus

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.

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Spanish

Noun

vesania f (plural vesanias)

1. 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)

2. rage