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delirium

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See also: Delirium and delírium

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium (derangement, madness).

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Noun

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delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)

  1. (medicine) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
    • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, [], →OCLC:
      The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
    • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC:
      Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 149:
      The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, that delirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.
    • 1879, John Morley, Burke:
      the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
  2. Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.

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Danish

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Noun

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delirium n (singular definite deliriet, plural indefinite delirier)

  1. delirium

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /deːˈliː.ri.ʏm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um

Noun

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delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)

  1. delirium

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  • Indonesian: delirium

Finnish

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Etymology

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< Latin dēlīrium

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdeli(ː)rium/, [ˈde̞li(ː)ˌrium]
  • Rhymes: -ium
  • Hyphenation(key): de‧li‧ri‧um

Noun

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delirium

  1. (medicine) delirium (temporary mental state of confusion, disorientation and anxiety)
    Synonyms: sekavuus, houretila

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  • This term is chiefly used by the medical profession.

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Inflection of delirium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative delirium deliriumit
genitive deliriumin deliriumien
partitive deliriumia deliriumeja
illative deliriumiin deliriumeihin
singular plural
nominative delirium deliriumit
accusative nom. delirium deliriumit
gen. deliriumin
genitive deliriumin deliriumien
partitive deliriumia deliriumeja
inessive deliriumissa deliriumeissa
elative deliriumista deliriumeista
illative deliriumiin deliriumeihin
adessive deliriumilla deliriumeilla
ablative deliriumilta deliriumeilta
allative deliriumille deliriumeille
essive deliriumina deliriumeina
translative deliriumiksi deliriumeiksi
abessive deliriumitta deliriumeitta
instructive deliriumein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of delirium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch delirium, from Latin dēlīrium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.li.ˈri.ʊm/
  • Rhymes: -ʊm
  • Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um

Noun

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delirium (first-person possessive deliriumku, second-person possessive deliriummu, third-person possessive deliriumnya)

  1. (psychiatry) delirium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From dēlīrō (to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix).

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dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī or dēlīrī); second declension

  1. (medicine) Delirium, madness, frenzy.
    Synonyms: dēlīrātiō, dēlīritās
    • c. 47 C.E., Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.7.28:
      [] aut quī febre aequē nōn quiēscente simul et dēlīrio et spīrandī difficultāte vexātur []
      [] or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once by delirium and difficulty in breathing []

Inflection

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative dēlīrium dēlīria
genitive dēlīriī
dēlīrī1
dēlīriōrum
dative dēlīriō dēlīriīs
accusative dēlīrium dēlīria
ablative dēlīriō dēlīriīs
vocative dēlīrium dēlīria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin dēlīrium.

Noun

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delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)

  1. a delirium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin dēlīrium.

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delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)

  1. a delirium

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɛˈli.rjum/
  • Rhymes: -irjum
  • Syllabification: de‧li‧rium

Noun

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delirium n

  1. (pathology) delirium (mental state of confusion)
    Synonym: majaczenie

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Derived terms

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adjective
nouns
verb
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noun

Further reading

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  • delirium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • delirium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium.

Noun

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delirium n

  1. delirium
    Synonym: (colloquial) dille

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