phrenesis
English
Noun
phrenesis (countable and uncountable, plural phreneses)
- (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
- madness, frenzy
Quotations
- "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).
Anagrams
- inspheres, phrensies
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φρένησις (phrénēsis), late variant of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰreˈneː.sis/, [pʰrɛˈneːs̠ɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /freˈne.sis/, [freˈnɛːs̬is]
Noun
phrenēsis f (genitive phrenēsis); third declension
- madness, delirium, frenzy
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | phrenēsis | phrenēsēs |
| Genitive | phrenēsis | phrenēsium |
| Dative | phrenēsī | phrenēsibus |
| Accusative | phrenēsin | phrenēsēs phrenēsīs |
| Ablative | phrenēse | phrenēsibus |
| Vocative | phrenēsis | phrenēsēs |
Descendants
- Medieval Latin: phrenesia
- → Old French: frenesie
- French: frénésie
- → Middle English: frensy
- English: frenzy
- Italian: frenesia
- Spanish: frenesí
- → Old French: frenesie
- → English: phrenesis
References
- “phrenesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- phrenesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- phrenesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette