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amentia

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin āmentia (madness; senselessness), from āmēns (mad, insane; foolish), from ab (from, away from) + mēns (mind).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eɪˈmɛnʃə/, /əˈmɛnʃə/

Noun

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amentia (countable and uncountable, plural amentias)

  1. Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped.
    • 1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson, Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology[1], 9th edition:
      Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

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Translations

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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āmentia f (genitive āmentiae); first declension

  1. madness, insanity (the state of being out of one's senses)
  2. folly, stupidity, senselessness
  3. malice, malignity

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative āmentia āmentiae
genitive āmentiae āmentiārum
dative āmentiae āmentiīs
accusative āmentiam āmentiās
ablative āmentiā āmentiīs
vocative āmentia āmentiae

Descendants

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

References

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  • 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.