phrenesis

From Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”). Doublet of frenzy.

phrenesis (countable and uncountable, plural phreneses)

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

• "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).

• inspheres, phrensies

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φρένησις (phrénēsis), late variant of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰrɛˈneː.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [freˈnɛː.s̬is]

phrenēsis f (genitive phrenēsis); third declension

1. madness, delirium, frenzy

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Medieval Latin: phrenesia
  • → Old French: frenesie, fernoisie, franaisie, frenisie, furnexie
    • Middle French: frenesie, frenaisie, frénésie
      • French: frénésie
      • → Middle English: frenesie, ffransy, ffrenesye, franesie, fransey, fransie, fransye, frenesy, frenesye, frensy, frensye
        • English: frenzy
        • Scots: franazy (obsolete)
  • → Italian: frenesia
  • → Spanish: frenesí
• → English: phrenesis

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