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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin diatriba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.aˈtri.ba/, /djaˈtri.ba/
- Rhymes: -iba
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧trì‧ba, dia‧trì‧ba
- IPA(key): (traditional) /diˈa.tri.ba/
- Rhymes: -atriba
- Hyphenation: di‧à‧tri‧ba
Noun
diatriba f (plural diatribe)
- debate
- diatribe
- (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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 diatriba in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ “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
- a learned discussion; a discourse
- (by extension) a school
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
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.
Noun
diatriba f (plural diatribas)
- diatribe
Further reading