delirium

See also: Delirium and delírium

English

Etymology

From the Latin dēlīrium (“derangement”, “madness”), from dēlīrō (“I am deranged”).

Pronunciation

Noun

delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)

  1. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
    • Washington Irving
      The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
    • Motley
      the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
    • Mary Shelley, The Last Man
      Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin dēlīrium

Pronunciation
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  • Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um

Noun

delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)

  1. delirium

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

From dēlīrō (“I deviate from the straight track; I am deranged”), from dē (“from, away from, out of”) + līra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī); second declension

  1. delirium, madness, frenzy
    • c. 47 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.7.28
      […] aut qui febre aeque non quiescente simul et delirio et spirandi difficultate vexatur […]
      […] or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once by delirium and difficulty in breathing […]

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēlīrium dēlīria
Genitive dēlīriī dēlīriōrum
Dative dēlīriō dēlīriīs
Accusative dēlīrium dēlīria
Ablative dēlīriō dēlīriīs
Vocative dēlīrium dēlīria

Synonyms
  • (madness): dēlīrātiō, dēlīritās

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)

  1. a delirium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)

  1. a delirium

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin dēlīrium, from dēlīrō (“I am deranged”), from dē (“from, away from, out of”) + līra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).

Noun

delirium n

  1. delirium

Declension
declension of delirium
singular plural
nominative delirium deliria
genitive delirium deliriów
dative delirium deliriom
accusative delirium deliria
instrumental delirium deliriami
locative delirium deliriach
vocative delirium deliria

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Swedish

Noun

delirium n

  1. delirium

Declension
Declension of delirium 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative delirium deliriet delirier delirierna
Genitive deliriums deliriets deliriers deliriernas
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