lunaticus Latin · revision 4186

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Itala|origins=la lūna}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫuːˈnaː.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [luˈnaː.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lūnāticus''' (feminine lūnātica, neuter lūnāticum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lūna|-āticus|t1=moon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It renders [[grc|σεληνιακός|tr=selēniakós]] and [[grc|σεληνόπληκτος|tr=selēnóplēktos|t=moonstruck]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The OLD and Georges refer to Isidore of Seville's account of epilepsy.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from the Itala, the jurist Paulus and Lactantius.^(TLL) Köbler dates Lactantius about 250–317 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lactantius uses it of men living on the moon.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Its main sense was moonstruck or epileptic, of a slave in the Digest, of the sick in the Vulgate of Matthew, and in Pseudo-Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In the Vulgate it is also a noun, a madman.^(Gaffiot 2016) A Pseudo-Augustinian text uses it of what lasts only a month, short-lived.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ Medieval Latin used it of what relates to the moon, of mental disorder thought to follow its phases, of maniacs and of what is ephemeral.^(DMLBS)^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Sardinian and Corsican words for a sterile animal and in Old French ''lunage'' “epileptic”.^(TLL) English ''lunatic'' came from Old French or Late Latin in the late 13th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * after 220 AD – The Itala uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius uses it of moon-dwellers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in Matthew.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 13th century – English ''lunatic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Living on the [[m|en|moon]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Moonstruck, [[m|en|epileptic]], [[m|en|lunatic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Lasting a month; short-lived.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A madman, lunatic.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[semilunaticus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[luna]]

+ * [[en|lunatic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}