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delirium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?l?rium (“derangement, madness”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?l??r??m
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??l?.?i.?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??l??.i.?m/
Noun
delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)
- (medicine) An 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.
- The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
- Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
Related terms
Translations
References
- “delirium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “delirium”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?l?rium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de??li?.ri.?m/
- Hyphenation: de?li?ri?um
Noun
delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)
- delirium
Synonyms
- delier
Latin
Etymology
From d?l?r? (“to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged”) +? -ium (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de??li?.ri.um/, [d?e??li??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de?li.ri.um/, [d???li??ium]
Noun
d?l?rium n (genitive d?l?ri? or d?l?r?); second declension
- (medicine) Delirium, madness, frenzy.
- Synonyms: d?l?r?ti?, d?l?rit?s
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- delirium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)
- a delirium
References
- “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)
- a delirium
References
- “delirium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin d?l?rium, from d?l?r? (“I am deranged”), from d? (“from, away from, out of”) + l?ra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).
Noun
delirium n
- delirium
Declension
Further reading
- delirium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
delirium n
- delirium
Declension
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madness
English
Etymology
From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæd.n?s/, /?mæd.n?s/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mad.n?s/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?m?d.n?s/
Noun
madness (countable and uncountable, plural madnesses)
- The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
- rash folly
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:insanity
Antonyms
- sanity
Translations
Anagrams
- Amsdens, desmans
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