vesania
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.
Noun
[edit]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)
- 1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (“mad, insane”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vesania f (plural vesanie)
Further reading
[edit]- vesania in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vēsānus (“mad, insane”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯eːˈsaː.ni.a/, [u̯eːˈs̠äːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈsa.ni.a/, [veˈs̬äːniä]
Noun
[edit]vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | vēsānia | vēsāniae |
genitive | vēsāniae | vēsāniārum |
dative | vēsāniae | vēsāniīs |
accusative | vēsāniam | vēsāniās |
ablative | vēsāniā | vēsāniīs |
vocative | vēsānia | vēsāniae |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: vesania
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- As is Nigeria, where Boko Haram's madness extends to Chad and Cameroon.
- rage
Further reading
[edit]- “vesania”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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