vengiamento

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Italian

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Old French vengement (“revenge”), action noun of vengier (“to avenge; to take revenge (upon)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ven.d͡ʒaˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: ven‧gia‧mén‧to

Noun

vengiamento m (plural vengiamenti) (Old Italian)

  1. revenge, vengeance
    Synonyms: vendetta, vengianza (Old Italian)
    prendere vengiamento ― to take revenge
    • 13th century, Pietro della Vigna, , lines 37–38; republished as “Amando com fin core e co' speranza” (chapter 167), in A. D'ancona, D. Comparetti, editors, Le antiche rime volgari secondo la lezione del Codice Vaticano 3793, volume 2, Bologna: Gaetano Romagnoli, 1875:
      No' la posso ucir, nè vengiamento
      Prendere al mio talento
      I cannot kill her , nor can I take revenge at will

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