vendetta

See also: Vendetta

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian vendetta ‎(“revenge”), from Latin vindicta.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vɛnˈdɛtə/, [vɛnˈdɛɾə], [vənˈdɛɾə]

Noun

vendetta ‎(plural vendettas)

1. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.

Translations

bitter, destructive feud in which each injury is revenged

• Albanian: gjakmarrje (sq) f
• Armenian: արյան վրիժառություն ‎(aryan vrižaṙutʿyun)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仇殺 (zh), 仇杀 (zh) ‎(chóushā), 相互仇殺, 相互仇杀 ‎(xiānghù chóushā)

• Czech: vendeta f, krevní msta m
• Dutch: vete (nl) f, m, vendetta (nl) f, m, bloedwraak (nl) f, m
• Esperanto: venĝiro
• Estonian: vendeta, veritasu
• Finnish: verikosto (fi)
• French: vendetta (fr) f
• Georgian: სისხლის აღება ‎(sisxlis aɣeba)
• German: Blutfehde f, Vendetta (de) f
• Greek: βεντέτα (el) f ‎(ventéta)
• Hungarian: vérbosszú (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðhefnd f
• Ido: vendetta (io)
• Italian: faida (it) f
• Japanese: 確執 (ja) ‎(かくしつ, kakushitsu), フェーデ ‎(fēde)
• Kannada: ಕಡುಹಗೆತನ (kn) ‎(kaḍuhagetana), ಮನೆತನದ ಹಗೆತನ (kn) ‎(manetanada hagetana)

• Kurdish: xwîndarî (ku) f, xîndarî (ku) f, xûndarî (ku) f, xwêndarî (ku) f, vendeta (ku) f
• Malay: balas (ms)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധുഹത്യാപ്രതികാരം ‎(bandhuhatyāpratikāraṃ)
• Nogai: карым ‎(karım)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blodhevn m

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دشمنی خونی ‎(došmani-e xuni), کین‌خواهی ‎(kin-xâhi)
• Polish: wendeta f, wróżda (pl) f, zemsta (pl) f
• Portuguese: rivalidade (pt) f
• Russian: кро́вная месть f ‎(króvnaja mestʹ), венде́тта (ru) f ‎(vendétta), вражда́ (ru) f ‎(vraždá) (feud)
• Scottish Gaelic: falachd f
• Slovak: vendeta f
• Spanish: vendetta (es) f, venganza de sangre f, venganza (es) f
• Swedish: vendetta (sv) c, blodshämnd c
• Tagalog: higanti
• Tamil: பரம்பரைப்பகை ‎(paramparaippakai)
• Turkish: kan davası (tr)
• Venetian: vendéta f
• Vietnamese: thù máu

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /venˈdet.ta/, [ven̪ˈd̪et̪ːä]
• Hyphenation: ven‧dét‧ta

Etymology

From Latin vindicta ‎(“vengeance”), from vindico ‎(“to claim, to vindicate”), from vindex ‎(“defender”).

Noun

vendetta f ‎(plural vendette)

1. revenge, vengeance

Derived terms

• la vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo

Related terms

• vendicarsi
• vendicatore
• vendicativo

See also

• faida
• ripicca

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Spanish

Noun

vendetta f ‎(plural vendettas)

1. vendetta