vesania

English

Etymology

From Latin vesania, from vesanus ‘mad’, from ve- ‘not’ + sanus ‘sane’.

Noun

vesania (uncountable)

1. Madness, insanity, mental derangement.
   • 2003: Overall, Cullen defined insanity (‘vesania’) as a nervous disorder. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 311)
   • 1894: American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore, MD), Jul. 1894: It is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania, that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs...

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsānia, derived from vēsānus (“mad, insane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈza.nja/
• Rhymes: -anja
• Hyphenation: ve‧sà‧nia

Noun

vesania f (plural vesanie)

1. (literary) madness, insanity

   Synonyms: follia, (literary) insania, pazzia

Further reading

• vesania in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• inevasa, vanesia

Latin

Etymology

From vēsānus (“mad, insane”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈsaː.ni.a/, [u̯eːˈs̠äːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈsa.ni.a/, [veˈs̬äːniä]

Noun

vēsānia f (genitive vēsāniae); first declension

1. madness, insanity

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vēsānia	vēsāniae
genitive	vēsāniae	vēsāniārum
dative	vēsāniae	vēsāniīs
accusative	vēsāniam	vēsāniās
ablative	vēsāniā	vēsāniīs
vocative	vēsānia	vēsāniae

Related terms

• vēsāniō
• vēsānus

Descendants

• English: vesania

References

• “vesania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vesania”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vesania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈsanja/ [beˈsa.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: ve‧sa‧nia

Noun

vesania f (plural vesanias)

1. madness, insanity
   • 2015 July 26, “Recuperar África”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Como lo es Nigeria, donde la vesania de Boko Haram se extiende a Chad y Camerún.

     As is Nigeria, where Boko Haram's madness extends to Chad and Cameroon.

2. rage

   Synonyms: rabia, furor

Further reading

• “vesania”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28