disconfitta

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.konˈfit.ta/
  • Rhymes: -itta
  • Hyphenation: di‧scon‧fìt‧ta

Etymology 1

Deverbal formed with the feminine past participle of disconfiggere (“to defeat”).

Noun

disconfitta f (plural disconfitte)

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of sconfitta
    • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
      granne vattaglia overo vettoria tristezze, disconfitte inscolpivano e aitri animali in sassi overo iente armata, in segno de tale memoria.
      They inscribed a great battle or victory, sorrows, defeats and other beings, or armed people, in sign of such a remembrance.

References

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

disconfitta f sg

  1. past participle feminine singular of disconfitto
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