bestemmia

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 08:52, 1 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /besˈtem.mja/, [bes̪ˈt̪emmjä]
  • Hyphenation: be‧stém‧mia

Etymology 1

From Old Italian biastema[1], from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasphēmia (remodeled after the verb bestemmiare[2], or alternatively through a Vulgar Latin form *blastemia[3]), from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía).

Noun

bestemmia f (plural bestemmie)

  1. curse
  2. blasphemy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bestemmia

  1. third-person singular present indicative of bestemmiare
  2. second-person singular imperative of bestemmiare

References

  1. ^ http://www.lessicografia.it/Controller?lemma=BIASTEMA
  2. ^ bestemmia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  3. ^ bestémmia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=bestemmia&oldid=54506329"