vesania

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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)
    • 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

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (mad, insane).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /veˈza.nja/
  • Rhymes: -anja
  • Hyphenation: ve‧sà‧nia

Noun

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vesania f (plural vesanie)

  1. (literary) madness, insanity
    Synonyms: follia, (literary) insania, pazzia

Further reading

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  • vesania in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From vēsānus (mad, insane) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension

  1. madness, insanity

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vēsānia vēsāniae
Genitive vēsāniae vēsāniārum
Dative vēsāniae vēsāniīs
Accusative vēsāniam vēsāniās
Ablative vēsāniā vēsāniīs
Vocative vēsānia vēsāniae
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Descendants

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  • English: vesania

References

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /beˈsanja/ [beˈsa.nja]
  • Rhymes: -anja
  • Syllabification: ve‧sa‧nia

Noun

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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.
      As is Nigeria, where Boko Haram's madness extends to Chad and Cameroon.
  2. rage
    Synonyms: rabia, furor

Further reading

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