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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kalwomnjā, from unattested *kalwomnos (“deceiving, accusing”), which is equal to a (hypothetical) mediopassive participle of calvor.
Pronunciation
Noun
calumnia f (genitive calumniae); first declension
- A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery.
- A pretence, evasion, subterfuge.
- A misrepresentation, false statement, fallacy, cavil.
- A false accusation or prosecution, malicious charge.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “calvor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85
- “calumnia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calumnia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calumnia 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)
- calumnia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- chicanery (specially of wrongfully accusing an innocent man): calumniae litium (Mil. 27. 74)
- “calumnia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “calumnia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Noun
calumnia f (plural calumnias)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of calúnia.
1878, Eça de Queirós, chapter V, in O Primo Basílio:Elle exclamou logo, vivamente: —Para evitar qualquer calumnia d'essas linguas damnadas!- He soon exclaimed, vividly: "To avoid any calumny from these damned people!"
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈlumnja/
- Rhymes: -umnja
- Syllabification: ca‧lum‧nia
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin calumnia.
Noun
calumnia f (plural calumnias)
- slander, calumny, aspersion, libel, defamation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
calumnia
- inflection of calumniar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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