phreneticus

Latin

Alternative forms

phrenīticus

Etymology

Alteration of phrenīticus, from Ancient Greek φρενῑτικός (phrenītikós, “delirious”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “delirium”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

phrenēticus (feminine phrenētica, neuter phrenēticum); first/second-declension adjective

mad, delirious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	phrenēticus	phrenētica	phrenēticum	phrenēticī	phrenēticae	phrenētica
genitive	phrenēticī	phrenēticae	phrenēticī	phrenēticōrum	phrenēticārum	phrenēticōrum
dative	phrenēticō	phrenēticae	phrenēticō	phrenēticīs
accusative	phrenēticum	phrenēticam	phrenēticum	phrenēticōs	phrenēticās	phrenētica
ablative	phrenēticō	phrenēticā	phrenēticō	phrenēticīs
vocative	phrenētice	phrenētica	phrenēticum	phrenēticī	phrenēticae	phrenētica

Descendants

Italian: farnetico
>? Romanian: firetic
>? Sardinian: frenédigu

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: frenètic
→ Old French: frenetique
- Middle French: frénétique
  - French: frénétique
- → Middle English: frenetik, frantike, frantyke, frenetic, frenetyk, frentik
  - English: frantic; frenetic; phrenitic
→ Galician: frenético
→ Italian: frenetico
→ Portuguese: frenético
→ Romanian: frenetic
→ Spanish: frenético

References

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