Etymology

demency

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Today it means: Madness; dementia. Full definition →

Latin dēmentia
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  1. Latin · derived fromdēmentia
  2. English todaydemency

From Latin dēmentia, from dēmens (“out of one's mind”).

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dementia

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.