bestemmia

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beˈstem.mja/
  • Rhymes: -emmja
  • Hyphenation: be‧stém‧mia

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Italian biastema,[1] from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasphēmia (remodeled after the verb bestemmiare,[2] or alternatively through a Vulgar Latin form *blastemia[3]), from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía).

Noun

bestemmia f (plural bestemmie)

  1. curse
  2. blasphemy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bestemmia

  1. inflection of bestemmiare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ http://www.lessicografia.it/Controller?lemma=BIASTEMA
  2. ^ bestemmia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  3. ^ bestémmia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
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