English → Latin
“madness” in Latin
vēsāniamadness, insanityīnsāniamadness, insanityvēcorsmad, insane, crazyāmēnsfrenzied, mad; frantic, distracted; insane, dementeddēmēnsout of one’s mind or senses: mad, raving, insane, crazy; more generally: foolish, reckless, distracted, infatuateddēlīrātiōsilliness, folly, madnessfūrorto steal, plunder; to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdrawrabiēsrage; madness
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
madness
PROP., mens alienata (Liv.); mentis alienatio (Cels.; aberration of intellect): vesania (want of intellectual perception): insania (when reason has lost its poiver, insanity): vecordia (of those whose mind is disturbed by the prevalence of some one idea or set of ideas): amentia (want of sense, intellectual blindness; affectio animi lumine carens, Cic., Tusc., 3, 5, 10): dementia (irrational conduct): deliratio (want of rational or connected ideas; of idiots, or of the enfeebled mind in extreme old age): furor: mentis ad omnia caecitas (blind and senseless impulse): rabies (of animals, rarely of men): to drive to madness, ad insaniam adigere (Terentianus); in furorem vertere aliquem (Curt.): to be driven to madness, ad insaniam venire; in rabiem agi (Liv.), in insaniam incidere (Cic.). A piece of madness, insania; facinus insanum, monstrosum, mirum: an intolerable piece of madness, insaniae non tolerabiles (Cic.).
Figuratively, rage, furor; rabies.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for madness?
- The usual Latin words for “madness” are vēsānia, īnsānia, vēcors; also āmēns, dēmēns, dēlīrātiō. 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.