calumnia
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/, [kaˈɫʊm.ni.a]
Noun
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.
Declension
First declension.
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
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, 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
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