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) IPA^(key): /pʰreˈneː.ti.kus/, [pʰrɛˈneːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /freˈne.ti.kus/, [freˈnɛːt̪ikus]

Adjective

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

1. mad, delirious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	phrenēticus	phrenētica	phrenēticum		phrenēticī	phrenēticae	phrenētica
Genitive	phrenēticī	phrenēticae	phrenēticī		phrenēticōrum	phrenēticārum	phrenēticōrum
Dative	phrenēticō		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
• → 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.