英语词汇delirium的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	delirium
词源	delirium. In Latin lera means the ridge left by ploughing, so the verb de-lerare means to make an irregular ridge when ploughing. A delirus was one who couldn’t make a straight fur- row and thus came to mean “a crazy, disoriented person whose mind wandered from the matter at hand.” The state of such a person was called delirium, which is still our word for the con- dition today. See also prevarication.
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