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Etymology
From Latin fānāticus (“carried away by a god, raving about, possessed, fanatic”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fa‧na‧ti‧cus
Noun
fanaticus m or f (plural fanatici)
- a fanatic
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From fānum + -āticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fānāticus (feminine fānātica, neuter fānāticum, adverb fānāticē); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) temple
- divinely inspired, enthusiastic
- frantic, frenzied
- furious, mad
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “fanaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fanaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fanaticus 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)
- fanaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.