FromLatināmentia(“madness; senselessness”), fromāmēns(“mad, insane; foolish”), fromab(“from, away from”) +mēns(“mind”).
- IPA(key): /eɪˈmɛnʃə/,/əˈmɛnʃə/
amentia (countable anduncountable,pluralamentias)
- Mentalimpairment; state of being mentally handicapped.
1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson,Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology[1], 9th edition:Cretinism is a form ofamentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
the state of being mentally handicapped
Fromamēns(“mad, insane; foolish”) +-ia, fromab-(“from, away from”) +mēns(“mind”).
āmentia f (genitiveāmentiae);first declension
- madness,insanity(the state of being out of one'ssenses)
- folly,stupidity,senselessness
- malice,malignity
First-declension noun.
- “amentia”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amentia”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "amentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- amentia inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
