deliratio

Latin

Etymology

dēlīrō (“to deviate from a straight line; to be crazy”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.liːˈraː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːlʲiːˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.liˈrat.t͡si.o/, [d̪eliˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlīrātiō f (genitive dēlīrātiōnis); third declension

1. silliness, folly, madness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēlīrātiō	dēlīrātiōnēs
genitive	dēlīrātiōnis	dēlīrātiōnum
dative	dēlīrātiōnī	dēlīrātiōnibus
accusative	dēlīrātiōnem	dēlīrātiōnēs
ablative	dēlīrātiōne	dēlīrātiōnibus
vocative	dēlīrātiō	dēlīrātiōnēs

References

• “deliratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “deliratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers