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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from Latin verēcundia, possibly influenced by cunnus (“vagina”). Doublet of verecondia, which was borrowed. Compare Galician vergoña ~ vergonza, but Portuguese and Occitan vergonha, Sicilian virigogna ~ vrigogna, Spanish vergüenza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /verˈɡoɲ.ɲa/
- Rhymes: -oɲɲa
- Hyphenation: ver‧gó‧gna
Noun
vergogna f (plural vergogne)
- shame, disgrace, discredit, scandal
- Synonyms: disonore, (literary) onta
- embarrassment, shyness
- Synonyms: imbarazzo, timidezza
- (in the plural) private parts
- Synonym: genitali
Derived terms
Further reading
- vergogna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana