Latin

Alternative forms

• kalumnia

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.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• calumnior
• calumniōsus

Related terms

• calumniātor
• calumniātrīx
• calumniōsē

Descendants

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “calumnia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

Spanish

Noun

calumnia f ‎(plural calumnias)

1. calumny

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.