insania

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See also: insânia

Italian

Noun

insania f (plural insanie)

  1. insanity, madness
    Synonyms: pazzia, follia

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

īnsānia f (genitive īnsāniae); first declension

  1. 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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īnsānia īnsāniae
Genitive īnsāniae īnsāniārum
Dative īnsāniae īnsāniīs
Accusative īnsāniam īnsāniās
Ablative īnsāniā īnsāniīs
Vocative īnsānia īnsāniae

Descendants

  • Galician: saña
  • Portuguese: sanha
  • Spanish: saña

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)

  1. insanity
    Synonym: vesania

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