Frenzy

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Middle English: from Old French frenesie, from medieval Latin phrenesia, from Latin phrenesis, from Greek phrēn ‘mind’.


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From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις(*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις(phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic.


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frenzy (n.)

mid-14c., "delirium, insanity," from Old French frenesie "frenzy, madness" (13c.), from Medieval Latin phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation from Latin phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). Meaning "excited state of mind" is from c. 1400.




frenzy (v.)

1795, from frenzy (n.). Related: Frenzied; frenzying.