delirium
See also: Delirium and delírium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium (“derangement, madness”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĭlĭʹrēəm
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪ.ɹi.əm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪɹ.i.əm/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Noun
delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)
- (medicine) 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.
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], OCLC 864083:
- The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
- Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 149:
- The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, that delirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.
- 1879, John Morley, Burke:
- the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
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- Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
Related terms
- agitated delirium
- deliracy
- delirament
- delirancy
- delirant
- delirate
- delirating
- deliration
- delire
- delirement
- deliriant
- deliriate
- delirifacient
- deliring
- delirious
- deliriously
- deliriousness
- delirium tremens
- delirous
- delirousness
- deliry
- excited delirium
- nocturnal delirium
Translations
mental state of confusion
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References
- “delirium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “delirium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deːˈliː.ri.ʏm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um
Noun
delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)
- delirium
Synonyms
- delier
Latin
Etymology
From dēlīrō (“to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged”) + -ium (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈliː.ri.um/, [d̪eːˈlʲiːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈli.ri.um/, [d̪eˈliːrium]
Noun
dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī or dēlīrī); second declension
- (medicine) Delirium, madness, frenzy.
- c. 47 C.E., Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.7.28:
- […] aut quī febre aequē nōn quiēscente simul et dēlīrio et spīrandī difficultāte vexātur […]
- […] or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once by delirium and difficulty in breathing […]
- Synonyms: dēlīrātiō, dēlīritās
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Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēlīrium | dēlīria |
| Genitive | dēlīriī dēlīrī1 | dēlīriōrum |
| Dative | dēlīriō | dēlīriīs |
| Accusative | dēlīrium | dēlīria |
| Ablative | dēlīriō | dēlīriīs |
| Vocative | dēlīrium | dēlīria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- dēlīrāmentum
- dēlīrātiō
- dēlīritās
- dēlīrō
- dēlīrus
Descendants
Descendants of delirium in other languages
- >? Asturian: deleres
- Catalan: deler, → deliri
- → Asturian: deliriu
- → Bulgarian: дели́р (delír)
- → Catalan: deliri
- → Czech: delirium
- → Danish: delirium
- → Dutch: delier, delirium
- → English: delirium
- → Esperanto: deliro
- → Estonian: deliirium
- → Finnish: delirium
- → French: délire, delirium
- → Romanian: delir
- → German: Delirium
- → Hungarian: delírium
- → Ido: deliro
- → Interlingua: delirio
- → Italian: delirio
- → Northern Kurdish: delîriyûm
- → Norwegian: delirium, dille
- → Polish: delirium
- → Portuguese: delírio
- → Russian: дели́рий (delírij)
- → Serbo-Croatian: делиријум
- → Slovak: delírium
- → Spanish: delirio, delírium
- → Swedish: delirium
- → Turkish: deliriyum
References
- “delirium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin dēlīrium.
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)
- a delirium
References
- “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin dēlīrium.
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)
- a delirium
References
- “delirium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛˈli.rjum/
- Rhymes: -irjum
- Syllabification: de‧li‧rium
Noun
delirium n
- (pathology) delirium (mental state of confusion)
- Synonym: majaczenie
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 |
Derived terms
adjective
- deliryczny
nouns
- delirka
- deliryk
verb
- delirować
Related terms
noun
- delirium tremens
Further reading
- delirium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- delirium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium.
Noun
delirium n
- delirium
- Synonym: (colloquial) dille
Declension
| Declension of delirium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | delirium | deliriet | delirier | delirierna |
| Genitive | deliriums | deliriets | deliriers | deliriernas |