from Plister---or former Plister Laura Kelber-- on FB....

[Mark Kohut]

This is correct....frantic is earlier...one meaning is to be infected from
something outside
that creates delirium.....[see 'frenzy'] it says....

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:38 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’d bet “frantic” is from the same root.
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:24 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the word "frenesim" in Portuguese means "frenzy," and "frenesi" is a
>> variant. (they are pronounced the same).
>> probably in other Latin-based languages as well, or similar.
>>
>> frenesim - Dicionário Online Priberam de Português
>> <https://dicionario.priberam.org/frenesim>
>> frenesi - Dicionário Online Priberam de Português
>> <https://dicionario.priberam.org/frenesi>
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 4:25 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Reading the Summoner's Tale from Chaucer, I found this:
>> > 2208 His sike heed is ful of vanytee;
>> > His sick head is full of foolishness;
>> > 2209 I holde hym in a manere frenesye."
>> > I consider him in a sort of delirium."
>> > Origin of the name Frenesi (in the song, at least)?
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