phrenesis

English

Noun

phrenesis (countable and uncountable, plural phreneses)

  1. (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
  2. madness, frenzy

Quotations

  • "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φρένησις (phrénēsis).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰreˈneː.sis/, [pʰrɛˈneː.sɪs]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /freˈne.sis/, [freˈneː.sis]
  • (Vulgar) IPA(key): /freˈneː.sis/, [freˈne.ses]

Noun

phrenēsis f (genitive phrenēsis); third declension

  1. madness, delirium, frenzy

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phrenēsis phrenēsēs
Genitive phrenēsis phrenēsum
Dative phrenēsī phrenēsibus
Accusative phrenēsem phrenēsēs
Ablative phrenēse phrenēsibus
Vocative phrenēsis phrenēsēs

Descendants

  • Medieval Latin: phrenesia

References

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