Borrowed fromLatin dēlīrium ( “ derangement, madness ” ) .
delirium (countable anduncountable plural deliriums or deliria
( medicine ) temporary mental state with a suddenonset , usuallyreversible , includingsymptoms ofconfusion , inability toconcentrate ,disorientation ,anxiety , and sometimeshallucinations . Causes can includedehydration , drugintoxication , and severeinfection .1837 L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon] , “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, inEthel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [ … ] , volume III, London:Henry Colburn , [ … ] →OCLC page149 :The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, thatdelirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.
1879 John Morley ,Burke :thedelirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
Wild ,frenzied excitement orecstasy .mental state of confusion
Albanian:jerm (sq) m Arabic: هَذَيَان m ( haḏayān ) Armenian: զառանցանք (hy) ( zaṙancʻankʻ ) ,ցնորք (hy) ( cʻnorkʻ ) Asturian:deliriu Azerbaijani:sayıqlama deliriya Basque:eldarnio zoraldi zorabio Belarusian:брэд m ( bred ) Bulgarian: бълну́ване (bg) n ( bǎlnúvane ) ,дели́риум (bg) m ( delírium ) Catalan: deliri (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 譫妄 / 谵妄 (zh) ( zhānwàng ) ,神志昏迷 (zh) ( shénzhì hūnmí ) Czech:delirium (cs) n Danish: delirium n Dutch: delier (nl) n , delirium (nl) n Esperanto: deliro (eo) Finnish:houretila sekavuus (fi) ,delirium (fi) French:délire (fr) m Galician: delirio m German: Delirium (de) n , Fieberphantasie (de) n , Taumel (de) m Greek: παραλήρημα (el) n ( paralírima ) ,ντελίριο (el) n ( ntelírio ) Gujarati: ચિત્તભ્રમણા ( cittabhramṇā ) Hebrew:דֶלִירְיוּם (he) m ( deliryum ) Hungarian: delírium (hu) Indonesian:delirium (id) Irish:rámhaille f Italian: delirio (it) m Japanese: せん妄 (ja) ( せんもう, senmō ) ,譫妄 (ja) ( せんもう, senmō ) Kazakh:сандырақ ( sandyraq ) Korean:섬망(譫妄) (ko) ( seommang ) Latin:dēlīrium n Latvian: delīrijs m Macedonian: делириум m ( delirium ) Maori: kutukutuahi ,ngutungutuahi kuawa mate kuawa Norwegian:Bokmål:delirium n Persian: دلیریوم ( deliryum ) Plautdietsch:Feebadroom m Polish: majaczenie n , delirium (pl) n ,( colloquial ) delirka f Portuguese: delírio (pt) m Romanian: delir (ro) n Romansch:please add this translation if you can Russian: бред (ru) m ( bred ) ,дели́рий (ru) m ( delírij ) ,горя́чка (ru) f ( gorjáčka ) Scottish Gaelic: breisleach m , boile f , mearan m , bruaillean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: делиријум m Roman: delirijum (sh) m Slovak: delírium n Slovene: delirij m Spanish: delirio (es) m Swedish: delirium (sv) n Tagalog: deliryo Turkish:sayıklama (tr) ,deliriyum Ukrainian:бред m ( bred ) ,делі́рій m ( delírij ) Vietnamese: mê sảng (vi)
delirium n (singular definite deliriet plural indefinite delirier
delirium Borrowed fromLatin dēlīrium
IPA (key ) : /deːˈliː.ri.ʏm/ Hyphenation:de‧li‧ri‧um delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums diminutive deliriumpje n )
delirium <Latin dēlīrium
IPA (key ) : /ˈdeli(ː)rium/ ,[ˈde̞li(ː)ˌrium] Rhymes:-ium Hyphenation(key ) :de‧li‧ri‧um delirium
( medicine ) delirium ( temporary mental state of confusion, disorientation and anxiety ) Synonyms: sekavuus houretila This term is chiefly used by the medical profession. Borrowed fromDutch delirium Latin dēlīrium
IPA (key ) : /de.li.ˈri.ʊm/ Rhymes:-ʊm Hyphenation:de‧li‧ri‧um delirium (plural delirium -delirium
( psychiatry ) delirium Fromdēlīrō ( “ to deviate from a straight track; to be crazy or deranged ” ) +-ium ( nominal suffix ) .
dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī or dēlīrī second declension
( medicine ) Delirium madness ,frenzy .Synonyms: dēlīrātiō dēlīritās c. 47C.E. ,Aulus Cornelius Celsus ,De Medicina 2.7.28 :[ …] dēlīrio et spīrandī difficultāte vexātur[ …] [ …] or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once bydelirium and difficulty in breathing [ …] Second-declension noun (neuter).
1 Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
FromLatin dēlīrium
delirium n (definite singular deliriet indefinite plural delirier definite plural deliria or deliriene
adelirium FromLatin dēlīrium
delirium n (definite singular deliriet indefinite plural delirium definite plural deliria
adelirium Learned borrowing fromLatin dēlīrium
IPA (key ) : /dɛˈli.rjum/ Rhymes:-irjum Syllabification:de‧li‧rium delirium n
( pathology ) delirium ( mental state of confusion ) Synonym: majaczenie delirium inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANdelirium in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromLatin dēlīrium
delirium n
delirium Synonym: ( colloquial ) dille 
