pernicie

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perniciēs (ruin; bane; execution), derived from pernecō (to kill or slay outright).

Pronunciation

Noun

pernicie f (invariable)

  1. (obsolete, literary) damage, disaster, ruin
    Synonyms: disastro, (literary, rare) esizio, rovina, sciagura, sfacelo
    • 1561, Francesco Guicciardini, “Libro 12, Capitolo 2 [Book 12, Chapter 2]”, in Storia d'Italia, published 2018, page 1390:
      [] né per assicurarsi, sopra il bisogno, che quello stato non ritornasse nel re di Francia, essere cagione di farlo cadere in mano d'altri, con tanto maggiore pericolo e pernicie di tutti []
      and neither, in order to make overly sure that state did not go back to the king of France, cause it to fall in the hands of others, with greater danger and damage for everyone
    • 1619, Paolo Sarpi, “Libro I: Leone X [Book 1: Leo X]”, in Istoria del concilio tridentino - Vol. I, Florence: Barbera, Bianchi e comp., published 1858, pages 40–41:
      Dopo, Carlo imperatore [] passò a raccontare che Frate Martino Lutero si sforzava di macchiare la Germania di quella peste, sì che non ovviandosegli, tutta quella nazione era per cadere in una detestabile pernicie
      Afterwards, emperor Charles went on to tell how friar Martin Luther was trying to infect Germany with that plague, such that, unless that was remedied, that whole nation was to fall into an abominable ruin
    • 1826, “Parte seconda, cap. XI [Second part, chapter 11]”, in Critiche riflessioni emesse dal d.r De Scipio sulla medicina curativa, Naples, § 116, page 46:
      D'essi il primo toccherà la pernicie indicata , tratterà de' vescicanti il secondo , e 'l terzo darà un cenno il più breve possibile della podagra
      Of these , the first one will cover the mentioned damage, the second one will be about blistering medications, and the third one will mention, as briefly as possible, podagra

Further reading

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

Latin

Noun

perniciē

  1. ablative singular of perniciēs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pernicies.

Noun

pernicie f (plural pernicii)

  1. danger

Declension

References

  • pernicie in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN