diatriba

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diatriba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.aˈtri.ba/, /djaˈtri.ba/[1]
    • Rhymes: -iba
    • Hyphenation: di‧a‧trì‧ba, dia‧trì‧ba
  • IPA(key): (traditional) /diˈa.tri.ba/[1]
    • Rhymes: -atriba
    • Hyphenation: di‧à‧tri‧ba

Noun

diatriba f (plural diatribe)

  1. debate
  2. diatribe
  3. (rare) reprimand

Usage notes

  • There are two pronunciations: diàtriba (stress on antepenult) and diatrìba (penult, modeled after French diatribe), with the former traditionally preferred since it reflects the original Latin stress pattern.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 diatriba in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ “diàtriba o diatrìba?”, in Treccani, La grammatica italiana (in Italian), 2017 May 2 (last accessed)

Further reading

  • diatriba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribḗ).

Pronunciation

Noun

diatriba f (genitive diatribae); first declension

  1. a learned discussion; a discourse
  2. (by extension) a school

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative diatriba diatribae
genitive diatribae diatribārum
dative diatribae diatribīs
accusative diatribam diatribās
ablative diatribā diatribīs
vocative diatriba diatribae

Descendants

  • English: diatribe
  • Italian: diatriba
  • Spanish: diatriba

References

  • diatriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • diatriba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French diatribe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /djaˈtɾiba/
  • Rhymes: -iba
  • Syllabification: dia‧tri‧ba

Noun

diatriba f (plural diatribas)

  1. diatribe

Further reading