insania

insania f (plural insanie)

1. insanity, madness

   Synonyms: pazzia, follia

• insano

• asinina

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈsaː.ni.a/, [ĩːˈs̠äːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsa.ni.a/, [inˈsäːniä]

īnsānia f (genitive īnsāniae); first declension

1. madness, insanity
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.42:

     “Et procul: ‘Ō miserī, quae tanta īnsānia, cīvēs?’”

     “And from a distance, [Laocoön exclaims]: ‘O poor citizens [of Troy], what madness [is] this?’” – Aeneas

First-declension noun.

• īnsānus

• Galician: saña
• Portuguese: sanha
• Spanish: saña

• “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insania”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “insania”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insania”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin īnsania.

insania f (plural insanias)

1. insanity

   Synonym: vesania

• “insania”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014