calumnia

See also: calumniá and calúmnia

Latin

Alternative forms

• kalumnia

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kalwomnia, from an unattested adjective *kalwomnos (“deceiving, accusing”), from the same root as calvor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈlum.ni.a/, [kaˈɫʊm.ni.a]

Noun

calumnia f (genitive calumniae); first declension

1. A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery.
2. A pretence, evasion, subterfuge.
3. A misrepresentation, false statement, fallacy, cavil.
4. A false accusation or prosecution, malicious charge.

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	calumnia	calumniae
genitive	calumniae	calumniārum
dative	calumniae	calumniīs
accusative	calumniam	calumniās
ablative	calumniā	calumniīs
vocative	calumnia	calumniae

Derived terms

• calumnior
• calumniōsus

Related terms

• calumniātor
• calumniātrīx
• calumniōsē

Descendants

• Catalan: calúmnia
• Italian: calunnia
• Middle French: calomnie
  • English: calumny
  • French: calomnie
• Polish: kalumnia

• Romanian: calomnie
• Old French: chalonge
  • English: challenge
    • French: challenge
• Portuguese: calúnia, coima
• Spanish: calumnia

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “calvor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 85
• calumnia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calumnia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “calumnia”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “calumnia” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • chicanery (specially of wrongfully accusing an innocent man): calumniae litium (Mil. 27. 74)
    
• calumnia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calumnia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Noun

calumnia f (plural calumnias)

1. calumny

Verb

calumnia

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of calumniar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of calumniar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of calumniar.