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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

lunatic orig. affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to depend on changes of the moon XIII; sb. XIV. — (O)F. lunatique — L. lūnāticus, f. lūna moon; see prec. -ATIC.
Hence lunacy XVI.

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