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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin perniciēs (“ruin; bane; execution”), derived from pernecō (“to kill or slay outright”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pernicie f (invariable)
- (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
- ablative singular of perniciēs
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pernicies.
Noun
pernicie f (plural pernicii)
- danger
Declension
References
- pernicie in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN