perfidia

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See also: perfídia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perfidia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /perˈfi.dja/
  • Rhymes: -idja
  • Hyphenation: per‧fì‧dia

Noun

perfidia f (plural perfidie)

  1. perfidy

Derived terms

Further reading

  • perfidia in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • perfidia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • perfidia in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • perfidia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • perfìdia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • perfìdia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From perfidus +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

perfidia f (genitive perfidiae); first declension

  1. faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood, perfidy
    Synonyms: fraus, dolus, maleficium, dēceptiō, stratēgēma, ars

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative perfidia perfidiae
genitive perfidiae perfidiārum
dative perfidiae perfidiīs
accusative perfidiam perfidiās
ablative perfidiā perfidiīs
vocative perfidia perfidiae

Descendants

References

  • “perfidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “perfidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perfidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perfidia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛrˈfi.dja/
  • Rhymes: -idja
  • Syllabification: per‧fi‧dia

Noun

perfidia f

  1. perfidy (act of violating faith or allegiance)
    Synonym: przebiegłość

Declension

Declension of perfidia
singular
nominative perfidia
genitive perfidii
dative perfidii
accusative perfidię
instrumental perfidią
locative perfidii
vocative perfidio
adjective
adverb

Further reading

  • perfidia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • perfidia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perfidia. Doublet of porfía.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɾˈfidja/
  • Rhymes: -idja
  • Syllabification: per‧fi‧dia

Noun

perfidia f (plural perfidias)

  1. perfidy

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia