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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium ( “ derangement, madness ” ) .
Pronunciation
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 .
1826 , [Mary Shelley ], The Last Man. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III) , London: Henry Colburn , , →OCLC :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 ], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn , , →OCLC , 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)
Wild , frenzied excitement or ecstasy .
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Translations
mental state of confusion
Albanian: jerm (sq) m
Arabic: هَذَيَان m ( haḏayān )
Armenian: զառանցանք (hy) ( zaṙancʻankʻ ) , ցնորք (hy) ( cʻnorkʻ )
Asturian: deliriu
Azerbaijani: sayıqlama , deliriya
Basque: eldarnio , zoraldi , zorabio
Belarusian: брэд m ( bred )
Bulgarian: бълну́ване (bg) n ( bǎlnúvane ) , дели́риум (bg) m ( delírium )
Catalan: deliri (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 譫妄 / 谵妄 (zh) ( zhānwàng ) , 神志昏迷 (zh) ( shénzhì hūnmí )
Czech: delirium (cs) n
Danish: delirium n
Dutch: delier n , delirium (nl) n
Finnish: houretila , sekavuus (fi) , delirium (fi)
French: délire (fr) m
Galician: delirio m
German: Delirium (de) n , Fieberphantasie (de) n , Taumel m
Greek: παραλήρημα (el) n ( paralírima ) , ντελίριο (el) n ( ntelírio )
Gujarati: ચિત્તભ્રમણા ( cittabhramṇā )
Hebrew: דֶלִירְיוּם (he) m ( deliryum )
Hungarian: delírium (hu)
Indonesian: delirium (id)
Irish: rámhaille f
Italian: delirio (it) m
Japanese: せん妄 (ja) ( せんもう, senmō ) , 譫妄 (ja) ( せんもう, senmō )
Kazakh: сандырақ ( sandyraq )
Korean: 섬망(譫妄) (ko) ( seommang )
Latin: dēlīrium n
Latvian: delīrijs m
Macedonian: делириум m ( delirium )
Maori: kutukutuahi , ngutungutuahi , kuawa , mate kuawa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: delirium n
Persian: دلیریوم ( deliryum )
Plautdietsch: Feebadroom m
Polish: majaczenie n , delirium (pl) n , ( colloquial ) delirka f
Portuguese: delírio (pt) m
Romanian: delir (ro) n
Romansch: please add this translation if you can
Russian: бред (ru) m ( bred ) , дели́рий (ru) m ( delírij ) , горя́чка (ru) f ( gorjáčka )
Scottish Gaelic: breisleach m , boile f , mearan m , bruaillean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: делиријум m
Roman: delirijum (sh) m
Slovak: delírium n
Slovene: delirij m
Spanish: delirio (es) m
Swedish: delirium (sv) n
Tagalog: deliryo
Turkish: sayıklama (tr) , deliriyum
Ukrainian: бред m ( bred ) , делі́рій m ( delírij )
Vietnamese: mê sảng (vi)
References
Danish
Noun
delirium n (singular definite deliriet , plural indefinite delirier )
delirium
Declension
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /deːˈliː.ri.ʏm/
Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um
Noun
delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums , diminutive deliriumpje n )
delirium
Synonyms
Descendants
Finnish
Etymology
< Latin dēlīrium
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈdeli(ː)rium/ ,
Rhymes: -ium
Syllabification(key ) : de‧li‧ri‧um
Noun
delirium
( medicine ) delirium ( temporary mental state of confusion, disorientation and anxiety )
Synonyms: sekavuus , houretila
Usage notes
This term is chiefly used by the medical profession.
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch delirium , from Latin dēlīrium .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /de.li.ˈri.ʊm/
Rhymes: -ʊm
Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um
Noun
delirium (first-person possessive deliriumku , second-person possessive deliriummu , third-person possessive deliriumnya )
( psychiatry ) delirium
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From dēlīrō ( “ to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged ” ) + -ium ( nominal suffix ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī or dēlīrī ) ; second declension
( medicine ) Delirium , madness , frenzy .
Synonyms: dēlīrātiō , dēlīritās
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
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1 Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of delirium in other languages
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin dēlīrium .
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet , indefinite plural delirier , definite plural deliria or deliriene )
a delirium
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin dēlīrium .
Noun
delirium n (definite singular deliriet , indefinite plural delirium , definite plural deliria )
a delirium
References
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
Derived terms
Related terms
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