querimonia

Italian

querimonia f (plural querimonie)

Etymology tree

Latin queror

Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -mōnium

Latin -mōnia

Latin querimōnia

From queror (“to complain”, or a related adjectival root) + -mōnia.

querimōnia f (genitive querimōniae); first declension

complaint (grievance)
- 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.27:
  Nunc, ut ā mē, patrēs cōnscrīptī, quandam prope iūstam patriae querimōniam dētester ac dēprecer, percipite, quaesō, dīligenter, quae dīcam, et ea penitus animīs vestrīs mentibusque mandāte.
  Now, Conscript Fathers, in order that I may ward off and plead against a certain, almost justified, complaint from the nation that is aimed at me, please, I beg you, pay close attention to what I am about to say, and commit those [words] deeply to your hearts and minds.

Inherited:
- Portuguese: caramunha
Borrowed:
- → English: querimony
- → French: quérimonie
- → Italian: querimonia
- → Portuguese: querimônia

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“querimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"querimonia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“querimonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “querimonia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1463