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cerritus

cerritus · adj

having a crazed brain

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Where it lives

Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. cerrītus — Lewis & Short

cerrītus, a, um, adj.contr. from cĕrĕbrītus, from cerebrum; cf. cerebrosus,

I having a crazed brain, frantic, mad: cerritus furiosus, Fest. p. 54 Müll. (rare and only poet.), Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 44, 31; id. Am. 2, 2, 144; id. Rud. 4, 3, 67; * Hor. S. 2, 3, 278.

2. cerritus — Walde–Hofmann

cerritus, -a, -um ,verrückt* (seit Plaut, rom., -ulus Mart. Cap.)i.- als *cers-ito8 (kaum *cer(er-itos, Schmidt Pl. 379) Ableitung ven. Cerés (nicht von Cerus, Marx Komm.' Rud. S. 185) „von der Ceres besessen*, vgl. Iymphätus, -icus „wahnsinnig, besessen* nach gr. vuuqóAqmrog und läruätus „von einem bösen Geist besessen, behext* (vgl. Plaut. Amph. frg. 8 fà certe aut läruätus aut cerritus es „von Larven oder von der … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cerritus, p. 238]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cerritus (scan p. 140; entry #2061).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cerritus (scan pp. 238-239; entry #622). Root candidates: *sgeres-, *ceres-.

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