lunatic

• lunatick (obsolete)

From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”), the connection stemming from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːnətɪk/

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lunatic (plural lunatics)

1. An insane person.
   • 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:

     While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.

• moonling
• See also Thesaurus:mad person

• lunacy
• lunatical
• lunatic asylum
• lunatic fringe
• lunatics have taken over the asylum

lunatic (comparative more lunatic, superlative most lunatic)

1. Crazed, mad, insane, demented.

• crazed, insane, mad, demented, maniacal, psychotic; see also Thesaurus:insane

• lunatically

• lunatic soup
• de lunatico inquirendo

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• cut nail, tunical

• IPA^(key): /luˈna.tik/

Inherited from Latin lūnāticus, equivalent to lună +‎ -atic.

• lunatec

lunatic m (plural lunatici)

1. somnambulist, sleepwalker

   Synonyms: somnambul, somnambulist, noctambul

2. (rare) dullard, fool, scatterbrain

   Synonyms: prostănac, cretin

lunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatică, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)

1. (popular, rare) born in the same month as another

• lună

Borrowed from French lunatique, Italian lunatico.

lunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatică, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)

1. (rare) having hallucinations
2. (rare) fantastic, unreal, bizarre
3. having unusual or strange ideas and behavior
4. (rare) fearful

• zăpăcit

• lunatic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)