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Italian
Etymology
From Latin ācrimōnia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kriˈmɔ.nja/
- Rhymes: -ɔnja
- Hyphenation: a‧cri‧mò‧nia
Noun
acrimonia f (plural acrimonie)
- acrimony, animosity
Derived terms
Further reading
- acrimonia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From ācer (“sharp, pungent”) + -mōnia.
Pronunciation
Noun
ācrimōnia f (genitive ācrimōniae); first declension
- (of taste) sharpness, pungency
- (of character) acrimony, austerity
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “acrimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acrimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acrimonia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “acrimonia”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin acrimonia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akɾiˈmonja/
- Rhymes: -onja
- Syllabification: a‧cri‧mo‧nia
Noun
acrimonia f (plural acrimonias)
- acrimony
Further reading