vesanus Latin · revision 32600

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la sānus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [weːˈsaː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [veˈs̬aː.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēsānus''' (feminine vēsāna, neuter vēsānum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''vaesānus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vē-|sānus|t1=not, badly|t2=sound, healthy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sānus]] to [[itc-pro|*sāno-]] and calls [[ine-pro|*seh₂-no-]] a purely mechanical reconstruction; he suggests a root meaning to tie, so “in order”, or the root of [[m|la|satis|t=enough]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Catullus.^(Köbler 2010) Catullus writes of a mad flame that burned his marrow.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is acting without reason or self-control, mad, frenzied.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of a tribune of the plebs and other men, and Horace of a mad poet.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of actions and feelings it is wild: Virgil writes of mad hunger, and Horace of the raging star of the Lion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also spelled ⟨vaes-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of a mad passion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a mad tribune.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of mad hunger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a mad poet and of the raging Lion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of people, [[m|en|mad]], [[m|en|insane]], frenzied; impetuous.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of actions, feelings and things, wild, [[m|en|furious]], raging.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vēsānia]]

+ * [[vēsāniō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sanus|alt=sānus]]

+ * [[insanus|alt=īnsānus]]

+ * [[vecors|alt=vēcors]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}