calumnia

See also: calumniá and calúmnia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈlum.ni.a/, [kaˈɫ̪ʊm.n̪i.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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

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
• Galician: coima, calumnia
• Polish: kalumnia

• Romanian: calomnie
• Old French: chalonge, calunge
  • English: challenge
    • French: challenge
    • Japanese: チャレンジ (charenji)
  • Norman: calenge
• 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
• 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)
    
• 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. slander, calumny, aspersion, libel, defamation

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.