The corpus record — Latin

dementia

the being out of one's mind; insanity, madness; folly

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Where it lives

Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 10 · 4.66/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
De Vita Beata 3 · 4.13/10k
Controversiae 25 · 3.79/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k

Densest 12 of 83 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēmentĭa — Lewis & Short

dēmentĭa, ae,

I f [demens], the being out of one's mind; insanity, madness; folly (freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: amentia, furor, rabies, vecordia, insania, deliratio, vesania): animi affectionem lumine mentis carentem nominaverunt amentiam eandemque dementiam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 40; Lucr. 1, 705; Cic. Cat. 4, 10, 22; Nep. Pelop. 3, 2; Caes. B. G. 4, 13; Sall. C. 42, 2; Quint. 7, 3, 2; Tib. 1, 2, 11; Verg. E. 2, 69; id. A. 5, 465; 9, 601; Juv. 10, 233; Hor. Epod. 17, 45; Ov. M. 13, 225 al.—In plur., follies, Cic. Att. 9, 9 fin.

In the wild

dementia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.4.25
dementiam Tertullian, Apologeticum 1.13
dementia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.90
dementiam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.7.36
dementia Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.450
dementia Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 13.65

6 of 186 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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