vesania

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Latin

Etymology

From vēsānus (mad, insane), from (out) + sānus (sane, healthy).

Pronunciation

Noun

vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension

  1. madness, insanity

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

References

  • 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

Noun

vesania f (plural vesanias)

  1. madness, insanity
    • 2015 July 26, “Recuperar África”, in El País:
      Como lo es Nigeria, donde la vesania de Boko Haram se extiende a Chad y Camerún.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. rage
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