délire

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See also: delire, deliré, and déliré

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.liʁ/
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Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrium.

Noun

délire m (plural délires)

  1. delirium
  2. (informal) crazy stuff, absurdity, nonsense
    • 2016 October 22, “Soprano : 'J'assume le fait d'être un rappeur positif'”, in Le Dauphiné libéré:
      Quand j’entends les histoires de burkini en France, je me demande pourquoi on se concentre sur ça ? Ce sont des histoires comme ça qui poussent les extrêmes, qui divisent. Pourquoi ne pas parler de choses positives ? Quand on voit la cabale extrême contre Paul Pogba par exemple après un match moyen avec l’équipe de France, c’est du délire.
      When I hear the stories about the burkini in France, I wonder why people focus on that. It's stories like that which push the extremes and divide people. Why not talk about positive things? When you see how viciously people gang up on Paul Pogba after an average match with the French team, for example, it's madness.
    • L’Eglise, la sexualité et Satan : quel délire et quelle hypocrisie ! Yvon Quinou, Mediapart (28 February 2019)
Descendants
  • Romanian: delir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

délire

  1. inflection of délirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

déli +‎ -re

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: dé‧li‧re

Adjective

délire

  1. sublative singular of déli