delirus

Esperanto

Verb

delirus

1. conditional of deliri

Latin

Etymology

Back-formation from dēlīrō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈliː.rus/, [d̪eːˈlʲiːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈli.rus/, [d̪eˈliːrus]

Adjective

dēlīrus (feminine dēlīra, neuter dēlīrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. crazy, insane, mad
2. senseless, silly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dēlīrus	dēlīra	dēlīrum		dēlīrī	dēlīrae	dēlīra
genitive	dēlīrī	dēlīrae	dēlīrī		dēlīrōrum	dēlīrārum	dēlīrōrum
dative	dēlīrō	dēlīrae	dēlīrō		dēlīrīs
accusative	dēlīrum	dēlīram	dēlīrum		dēlīrōs	dēlīrās	dēlīra
ablative	dēlīrō	dēlīrā	dēlīrō		dēlīrīs
vocative	dēlīre	dēlīra	dēlīrum		dēlīrī	dēlīrae	dēlīra

Descendants

• Old French: deloir
  • Cypriot Old French: delier
• Old Occitan: daler

References

• “delirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delirus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• delirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.