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 vē (“out”) + sānus (“sane, healthy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension

  1. madness, insanity

Inflection

First declension.

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.
  2. rage
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