delirus Latin · revision 6545

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=back-formation|attested=Varro|origins=la līra}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [deːˈliː.rʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [deˈliː.rus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlīrus''' (feminine dēlīra, neuter dēlīrum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a back-formation from [[dēlīrō]] “to be crazy”, literally “to go off the furrow”, from [[dē-]] and [[līra]] “furrow”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Varro, whom he dates 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius has ''dēlīra fātur'' “says crazy things”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant having a deranged mind, crazy, silly, doting, as Lucretius' raving mind, Cicero's doting old man and Horace's madman, and of things senseless, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lactantius uses the comparative ''dēlīrior''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant deviating, and raving, doting.^(DMLBS) It survives in Old French ''deloir''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|delirium]] came in the 1590s from the related noun [[dēlīrium]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of a raving mind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a doting old man.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English ''delirium'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Crazy, insane, [[m|en|doting]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of things)'' Senseless.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēlīritās]]

+ * [[dēlīrium]]

+ * [[perdēlīrus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēlīrō]]

+ * [[līra]]

+ * [[en|delirium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}