The word "lunatic" comes from the Latin "luna" meaning moon. This derives from the former belief that changes of the moon caused insanity.
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And it was called a lunatic, okay? Lunar, lunatic, what, the word derived outta lunatic is lunar — the moon, okay. And the people back then thought when there was a full moon, that this alleged demon came in this guy's body, and the guy freaked out.
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• noun 1 a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use). 2 an extremely foolish person. ... — ORIGIN Latin lunaticus, from luna ‘moon’ (from the belief that changes of the moon caused intermittent insanity). ... About this dictionary; The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English contains 145,000...
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