English → Latin
“crazy” in Latin
imbēcillusweak, feeble; cowardlyfragilisfragile, brittle, easily broken, breakable; weak, frail, flimsy, perishablecadūcusThat falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.; That easily falls, inclined to fall; Devoted to deadēmōto remove, take away, or subtract; to withhold, take away, subtract fromāmēnsfrenzied, mad; frantic, distracted; insane, dementedvēsānusmad, insane, frenzied; impetuous; fierce, wild, savage, furiousīnsānusmad, insane, dementedvēcorsmad, insane, crazydēlīruscrazy, insane, mad; senseless, sillyvaleōto have strength, influence, power; to avail; to be well, healthy, sound; to be worth, be worthy
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crazy
Weak, imbecillus (imbecillis is a later form; deficient in proper strength, as well with reference to the body as the mind; opposed to fortis, valens, firmus): fragilis (not durable): caducus (that is inclined to fall or to give way). [Vid: also, WEAK.] A crazy head, ingenium imbecillum: homo imbecillus: anything that is crazy; e.g., a house, ruinosus: pronus in ruinam; vitiosus (damaged); delabens (tumbling to pieces): to be crazy, ruinosum esse: ruinam minari; labare (tottering): a crazy house, aedes ruinosae.
With reference to the mind: ingenii imbecillis (mentally weak): mente captus: mente alienatus: demens: amens: vesanus: insanus: vecors: delirus. [SYN. in MAD]: to be crazy, mente captum; mente alienatum esse; insanire; delirare: to become crazy, mente alienari; in insaniam incidere: to turn or make anybody crazy, ad insaniam adigere aliquem.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crazy?
- The usual Latin words for “crazy” are imbēcillus, fragilis, cadūcus; also dēmō, āmēns, vēsānus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.