delirium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dĭlĭʹrĭəm, IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪɹɪəm/

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.

See also

• delirium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “delirium” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈliː.ri.um/

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 […]

References

• delirium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Noun

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

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Noun

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

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

Noun

delirium n

1. delirium