lunaticus

Latin

Etymology

From lūna +‎ -āticus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːˈnaː.tɪ.kʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈnaː.t̪i.kus]

Adjective

lūnāticus (feminine lūnātica, neuter lūnāticum); first/second-declension adjective

Of, or living on, the moon
epileptic, lunatic, moonstruck, crazy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular				plural
nominative	lūnāticus	lūnātica	lūnāticum		lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnātica
genitive	lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnāticī		lūnāticōrum	lūnāticārum	lūnāticōrum
dative	lūnāticō	lūnāticae	lūnāticō		lūnāticīs
accusative	lūnāticum	lūnāticam	lūnāticum		lūnāticōs	lūnāticās	lūnātica
ablative	lūnāticō	lūnāticā	lūnāticō		lūnāticīs
vocative	lūnātice	lūnātica	lūnāticum		lūnāticī	lūnāticae	lūnātica

Descendants

Inherited:
- Corsican: lunaticu, lanaticu
- Old French: lunage
- ⇒ Old Occitan: lunajos
- Romanian: lunatic, lunatec
- Sardinian: lunadigu
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: llunàtic
- → German: Lunatiker
  - → Belarusian: луна́цік (lunácik)
  - → Polish: lunatyk
  - → Russian: луна́тик (lunátik)
  - → Ukrainian: луна́тик (lunátyk)
- → Italian: lunatico
- → Middle French: lunatique
  - → Middle English: lunatik, lunatick, lunatijk, lunatyk, lunatyke, lynatik
    - English: lunatic
  - French: lunatique
    - → Romanian: lunatic
  - Norman: leunatique
- → Portuguese: lunático
- → Sicilian: lunàticu
- → Spanish: lunático

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lūnātĭcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 455

Further reading

“lunaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"lunaticus", 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)
lunaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.