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English
Etymology
First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/, /əˈbɒm.ɪˌneɪt/
- (adjective): (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.ˌneɪt/, /ə.ˈbɒm.ɪ.ˌneɪt/, /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.nət/
Adjective
abominate (comparative more abominate, superlative most abominate)
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Verb
abominate (third-person singular simple present abominates, present participle abominating, simple past and past participle abominated)
- (transitive) To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
- Synonym: abhor
1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:"Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration."
- (transitive, colloquial) To dislike strongly.
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to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree
- Arabic: مَقَت (maqat), تَطَيَّر (taṭayyar)
- Bulgarian: отвращавам се (otvraštavam se), гнуся се от (gnusja se ot), ненавиждам (bg) (nenaviždam)
- Catalan: abominar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 憎恨 (zh) (zēnghèn), 厭惡/厌恶 (zh) (yànwù), 討厭/讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn)
- Crimean Tatar: igrenmek
- Dutch: verachten (nl), verafschuwen (nl)
- Esperanto: abomeni (eo)
- Finnish: vihata (fi), inhota (fi), kammoksua
- French: abominer (fr)
- German: verabscheuen (de)
- Greek: απεχθάνομαι (el) (apechthánomai)
- Ancient: ἀποπτύω (apoptúō)
- Hebrew: תיעב (tiév)
- Hungarian: undorodik (hu), irtózik (hu), utál (hu), gyűlöl (hu)
- Ido: abominar (io)
- Interlingua: abominar, detestar
- Italian: abominare (it)
- Japanese: 忌み嫌う (ja) (imikirau), 唾棄する (ja) (daki suru)
- Latin: abōminor
- Norwegian: føle avsky, avsky (no)
- Portuguese: abominar (pt)
- Russian: пита́ть отвраще́ние (pitátʹ otvraščénije), ненави́деть (ru) (nenavídetʹ), не выноси́ть (ru) (ne vynosítʹ)
- Spanish: abominar (es), detestar (es)
- Swedish: avsky (sv)
- Tagalog: maani (literally), masuklam (literally)
- Vietnamese: căm ghét (vi)
- Volapük: naudön (vo)
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References
- ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 4
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abominate”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
abominate
- inflection of abominare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
abominate f pl
- feminine plural of abominato
Latin
Verb
abōmināte
- second-person plural present active imperative of abōminō
Spanish
Verb
abominate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of abominar combined with te