minacia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɪˈnaː.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [miˈnaː.t͡ʃi.a]

Etymology 1

From mināx +‎ -ia. Attested in Plautus and Arnobius the Younger.

Noun

minācia f (genitive mināciae); first declension (Old Latin, Late Latin)

1. threat

Usage notes

• Usually found in the plural mināciae.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	minācia	mināciae
genitive	mināciae	mināciārum
dative	mināciae	mināciīs
accusative	mināciam	mināciās
ablative	mināciā	mināciīs
vocative	minācia	mināciae

Descendants

(Note: terms beginning with a- came via a Vulgar derivate with the prefix ad-)

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: minatta (Logudorese)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: minaccia
    • →? Friulian: menace
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: manase
  • Romansh: imnatscha
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: manace, menace, menache, menaiche
    • French: menace
    • Norman: m'niche, méniche
    • → Middle English: manace
      • English: menace
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: menaça
    • Catalan: amenaça
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mẽaça, amẽaça, meaça, ameaça
    • Galician: ameaza
    • Portuguese: ameaça
  • Old Spanish: menaça
    • Ladin: amenasa
    • Spanish: menaza, amenaza
      • Papiamentu: amenasa
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mināciāre (see there for further descendants)

References

• “minaciae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• minaciae in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “minaciae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

Adjective

minācia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mināx