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Italian
Noun
insania f (plural insanie)
- insanity, madness
- Synonyms: pazzia, follia
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
īnsānia f (genitive īnsāniae); first declension
- madness, insanity
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.42:
- “Et procul: ‘Ō miserī, quae tanta īnsānia, cīvēs?’”
- “And from a distance, : ‘O poor citizens , what madness this?’” – Aeneas
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “insania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “insania”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnsania.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈsanja/
- Rhymes: -anja
- Syllabification: in‧sa‧nia
Noun
insania f (plural insanias)
- insanity
- Synonym: vesania
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