calumnia
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *kalwomniā, from an unattested adjective *kalwomnos (“deceiving, accusing”), from the same root as calvor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
calumnia f (genitive calumniae); first declension
- A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery.
- A pretence, evasion, subterfuge.
- A misrepresentation, false statement, fallacy, cavil.
- A false accusation or prosecution, malicious charge.
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calumnia | calumniae |
Genitive | calumniae | calumniārum |
Dative | calumniae | calumniīs |
Accusative | calumniam | calumniās |
Ablative | calumniā | calumniīs |
Vocative | calumnia | calumniae |
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References[edit]
- 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
- calumnia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- calumnia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- 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)
- 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
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
calumnia f (plural calumnias)
Verb[edit]
calumnia
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