diffamo
See also: diffamò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /difˈfa.mo/
- Rhymes: -amo
- Hyphenation: dif‧fà‧mo
Verb
diffamo
- first-person singular present indicative of diffamare
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + fāma (“report, opinion, reputation”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪfˈfaː.moː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪ifˈfaː.mo]
Verb
diffāmō (present infinitive diffāmāre, perfect active diffāmāvī, supine diffāmātum); first conjugation
- to spread an unfavorable report
- to defame, malign, decry
- (Late Latin) to proclaim or declare widely
Conjugation
Conjugation of diffāmō (first conjugation)
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
- diffamo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.