bestemmiare
Italian
Etymology
From a cross of bestia (“beast”) with Old Italian biastemmare, biastemmiare[1], itself from Vulgar Latin *blastēmāre[2], present active infinitive of *blastēmō, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of biasimare, which came through Old French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bes.temˈmja.re/, [bes̪t̪emˈmjäːr̺e̞]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: be‧stem‧mià‧re
Verb
bestemmiare
- to blaspheme, specifically:
- (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
- (intransitive) To commit blasphemy.
- (by extension, transitive) To curse.
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto III, lines 103–105, page 43:
- Bestemmiavano Dio e lor parenti, ¶ l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme ¶ di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.
- God they blasphemed and their progenitors, ¶ the human race, the place, the time, the seed ¶ of their engendering and of their birth.
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata nona, Novella I [Ninth Day, First Story]”, in Decamerone [Decameron], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 210:
- Rinuccio dolente, & beſtemmiando la ſua ſventura non ſe ne tornò a caſa per tutto queſto
- Rinuccio, crestfallen and cursing his evil fortune, nevertheless went not home
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- (by extension, intransitive) To curse, swear.
- (figuratively, transitive) To calumniate, revile.
- c. 1820, Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri, collected in Pensieri di varia filosofia e di bella letteratura [Thoughts of Varied Philosophy and Fine Literature], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1898, page 104:
- mentre bestemmiano l’arte e predicano la natura, non s’accorgono che la minor arte è minor natura
- they revile art and praise nature, not realizing that less art equals less nature
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Conjugation
Conjugation of bestemmiare
Related terms
References
- http://www.lessicografia.it/Controller?lemma=BIASTEMMARE%2C+e+BIASTEMMIARE
- bestemmiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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