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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /difˈfa.mo/
- Rhymes: -amo
- Hyphenation: dif‧fà‧mo
Verb
diffamo
- first-person singular present indicative of diffamare
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + fāma (“report, opinion, reputation”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
diffāmō (present infinitive diffāmāre, perfect active diffāmāvī, supine diffāmātum); first conjugation
- to spread an unfavorable report
- to defame, malign, decry
- (Late Latin) to proclaim or declare widely
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “diffamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffamo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.