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French
Verb
menaça
- third-person singular past historic of menacer
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin minācia, a noun based on mināx (“threatening”).
Pronunciation
Noun
menaça f (plural menaças)
- threat
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin minācia, a noun based on mināx (“threatening”).
Pronunciation
Noun
menaça f (plural menaças)
- threat
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 54r:dixo ẏſaẏas a los menſageros q̃l embio el reẏ ezechias aſſi dizredes al nr̃o ſennor q̃ diz el criador Nõ temas delas menazas q̃ oiſt de los uaſſallos del reẏ de ſur. Afe yo trametre uiẽto ⁊ oyra tal palabra. por q̃stornara aſu tr̃a ⁊ ẏl fara morir aeſpada.- Isaiah said the messengers sent to him by king Hezekiah, “You will tell our master that thus says the Creator, ‘Do not fear the threats you have heard from the servants of the king of the south. Lo, I will send wind and he will hear a rumor such that he will return to his land, and there he will be made to die by the sword.’”
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