denigrate

English

WOTD – 28 June 2009    

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɛ.nɪ.ɡɹeɪt/, X-SAMPA: /dE.nI.gr\eIt/

Etymology

From Latin dēnigrātus, the past participle of dēnigrāre (“to blacken”), from dē + nigrare 'to blacken (from niger (“black”))

Verb

denigrate (third-person singular simple present denigrates, present participle denigrating, simple past and past participle denigrated)

1. (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
2. (transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
3. (rare) To blacken.

Derived terms

• denigration
• denigratory

Translations

to criticise so as to besmirch

• Armenian: սևացնել (hy) (sevac’nel) 
• Bulgarian: очерням (bg) (očernjam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玷污 (cmn) (diànwù), 詆毀 (cmn), 诋毁 (cmn) (dǐhuǐ)

• Czech: pošpinit (cs)
• Dutch: kleineren (nl), denigreren (nl)
• Finnish: mustamaalata (fi), mustata (fi)
• French: dénigrer (fr), médire (fr)
• German: anschwärzen (de), verleumden (de), verunglimpfen (de)
• Italian: denigrare (it), criticare (it), sparlare (it), parlare male (it), diffamare (it)

• Japanese: 侮辱する (ja) (ぶじょくする, bujoku suru)
• Macedonian: оцрнува (mk) (oc'rnuva)
• Polish: uwłaczać (pl), oczerniać (pl)
• Portuguese: denegrir (pt)
• Russian: клеветать (ru) (klevetát’) , наговаривать (ru) (nagovárivat’) , очернять (ru) (očernjátʹ) 
• Serbo-Croatian: ocrniti (sh)
• Spanish: denigrar (es)

to treat as worthless

• Bulgarian: омаловажавам (bg) (omalovažavam)
• Czech: znevažovat (cs)
• Dutch: kleineren, denigreren
• Finnish: vähätellä (fi)
• French: dénigrer (fr), rabaisser (fr), déprécier (fr)
• German: verleumden (de), verunglimpfen (de), herabsetzen (de)

• Macedonian: омаловажува (mk) (omalovážuva), понижува (mk) (ponížuva)
• Polish: pomniejszyć (pl), umniejszać (pl)
• Portuguese: denegrir (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan dìmeas air (gd)
• Spanish: denigrar (es)

blacken

• Armenian: սևացնել (hy) (sevac’nel) 
• Bulgarian: почерням (bg) (počernjam)
• Dutch: zwartmaken (nl)
• Finnish: mustata (fi), pimentää (fi)

• French: noircir (fr)
• German: anschwärzen (de)
• Macedonian: оцрнува (mk) (oc'rnuva)
• Russian: чернить (ru) (černít’) 

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: denigrar
• Indonesian: mencemooh?

• Italian: denigrare
• Turkish: küçümsemek, kötülemek

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Italian

Verb

denigrate

1. second-person plural present tense and imperative of denigrare

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