lunatic
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈluːnətɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editlunatic (plural lunatics)
- An insane person.
- Synonyms: moonling; see also Thesaurus:mad person
- 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
- While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editinsane person
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Adjective
editlunatic (comparative more lunatic, superlative most lunatic)
- Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
- (literary, rare) Relating to the Moon; lunar.
- 1996, Joel C. Relihan, “Menippus in Antiquity and the Renaissance”, in R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, editors, The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 269:
- As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.
- 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 53, in The Ministry for the Future, New York, N.Y.: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 235:
- That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.
- (literary, rare) Influenced or affected by the Moon.
- 1956 Summer, David R[ytman] Slavitt, “Partiti da Cotesti che son Morti”, in The Kenyon Review, volume XVIII, number 3, Gambier, O.H.: Kenyon College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
- This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editcrazed
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References
edit- “lunatic, adj. & n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
editRomanian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Latin lūnāticus, equivalent to lună + -atic.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editlunatic m (plural lunatici)
- somnambulist, sleepwalker
- Synonyms: somnambul, somnambulist, noctambul
- (rare) dullard, fool, scatterbrain
Declension
editDeclension of lunatic
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) lunatic | lunaticul | (niște) lunatici | lunaticii |
genitive/dative | (unui) lunatic | lunaticului | (unor) lunatici | lunaticilor |
vocative | lunaticule | lunaticilor |
Adjective
editlunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatică, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)
- (popular, rare) born in the same month as another
Declension
editDeclension of lunatic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | lunatic | lunatică | lunatici | lunatice | ||
definite | lunaticul | lunatica | lunaticii | lunaticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | lunatic | lunatice | lunatici | lunatice | ||
definite | lunaticului | lunaticei | lunaticilor | lunaticelor |
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from French lunatique, Italian lunatico.
Adjective
editlunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatică, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)
- (rare) having hallucinations
- (rare) fantastic, unreal, bizarre
- having unusual or strange ideas and behavior
- (rare) fearful
Declension
editDeclension of lunatic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | lunatic | lunatică | lunatici | lunatice | ||
definite | lunaticul | lunatica | lunaticii | lunaticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | lunatic | lunatice | lunatici | lunatice | ||
definite | lunaticului | lunaticei | lunaticilor | lunaticelor |
See also
editFurther reading
edit- lunatic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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