amentia

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English

Etymology

From Latin āmentia (“madness; senselessness”), from āmēns (“mad, insane; foolish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + mēns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪˈmɛnʃə/, /əˈmɛnʃə/

Noun

amentia (countable and uncountable, plural amentias)

  1. Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped.
    • 1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson, Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology‎, 9th edition:
      Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

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Latin

Etymology

From amēns (“mad, insane; foolish”) +‎ -ia, from ab- (“from, away from”) + mēns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

āmentia f (genitive āmentiae); first declension

  1. The state of being out of one's senses; madness, insanity.
  2. Folly, stupidity, senselessness.
  3. Malice, malignity.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative āmentia āmentiae
Genitive āmentiae āmentiārum
Dative āmentiae āmentiīs
Accusative āmentiam āmentiās
Ablative āmentiā āmentiīs
Vocative āmentia āmentiae

Descendants

  • English: amentia
  • Italian: amenza
  • Russian: аме́нция f (améncija)

References

  • “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • amentia 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)
  • amentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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