phrenesis

phrenesis (countable and uncountable, plural phreneses)

1. (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
2. madness, frenzy

• "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).

• inspheres, phrensies

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φρένησις (phrénēsis), late variant of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰreˈneː.sis/, [pʰrɛˈneːs̠ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /freˈne.sis/, [freˈnɛːs̬is]

phrenēsis f (genitive phrenēsis); third declension

1. madness, delirium, frenzy

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Medieval Latin: phrenesia
  • → Old French: frenesie
    • French: frénésie
    • → Middle English: frensy
      • English: frenzy
  • Italian: frenesia
  • Spanish: frenesí
• → English: phrenesis

• “phrenesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phrenesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• phrenesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette