blasphemia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía, slander, blasphemy).

Pronunciation

Noun

blasphēmia f (genitive blasphēmiae); first declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

  1. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) blasphemy
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin) slander, reviling

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative blasphēmia blasphēmiae
genitive blasphēmiae blasphēmiārum
dative blasphēmiae blasphēmiīs
accusative blasphēmiam blasphēmiās
ablative blasphēmiā blasphēmiīs
vocative blasphēmia blasphēmiae

Descendants

References

  • blasphemia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • blasphemia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.