pernizie

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /perˈnit.t͡sje/
  • Rhymes: -ittsje
  • Hyphenation: per‧nì‧zie

Noun

pernizie f (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of pernicie
    • 1565 [1555], Olaus Magnus, “De le varie condizioni de' popoli Aquilonari - Libro decimoquarto [About the various conditions of the northern peoples - Fourteenth book]”, in Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali, translation of Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (in New Latin), page 169:
      la astuta pernizie degli huomini,è tanto oltre proceduta,che ciascuno è doventato perfetto artefice de la sua propria ruina
      Man's astute disaster has gone so far that each one has become a perfect creator of his own ruin
    • 1771, “Lettera XV: Febbronio § VIII - Risposta”, in Versione e proseguimento dell'italus al ch: signor Giustino Febbronio dello Stato della Chiesa - Tomo secondo, Trento, page 90:
      Conciossiachè, e qual Settario, o Impostore, o Infedele giudicherà gli errori suoi colpevoli di aperta pernizie?
      For what sectarian, or impostor, or non-believer will ever judge their own errors as culpable for open damage?
    • 1837, “VI. La compassione procede non dall'amore di sè , ma dal sentimento d'umanità”, in Il Progresso delle scienze, delle lettere e dell arti, page 228:
      Conciossiachè a noi sembrasse piuttosto che sieno poco adatti alla compassione i mal capitati, solo perchè dovendo pressochè tutta occupare la mente di sé e delle proprie pernizie, appena picciol luogo vi trovano le pernizie altrui
      Even though we thought the unfortunate ones to be rather scarcely inclined to compassion, if only because, having almost all of their minds occupied by themselves and their own misfortunes, there's little place that the misfortunes of others can find there

References

  • pernicie in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Accademia della Crusca (1729–1738) “pernizie”, in Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca (in Italian), 4 edition – on www.lessicografia.it