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diffamo
diffamo
See also: diffamò
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + fāma (“report, opinion, reputation”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /difˈfaː.moː/
Verb
diffāmō (present infinitive diffāmāre, perfect active diffāmāvī, supine diffāmātum); first conjugation
- I spread a unfavorable report.
- I defame, malign, decry.
- (Late Latin) I proclaim or declare widely.
Inflection
Related terms
- diffāmātiō
- diffāmia
- fāma
Descendants
References
- diffamo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diffamo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “diffamo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.