frenzy

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived from*φρένησις
2. Latin · derived fromphrenesis
3. Old French · derived fromfrenesie
4. Middle English · inherited fromfrensy
5. English todayfrenzy

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. Doublet of phrenesis.

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