calomnie
See also: calomnié
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calumnia.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
calomnie f (plural calomnies)
- calumny; slander
- 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 14
- ...presque tous les membres correspondants que nous avions dans la province prêtèrent l'oreille à ses calomnies et nous retirèrent leur coopération.
- Almost all the corresponding members we had in the province listened to his slander and withdrew their cooperation from us.
- 1918, Marcel Proust, chapter 2, in À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower] (À la recherche du temps perdu):
- Toujours est-il que les Simonet s'étaient, paraît-il, toujours irrités comme d'une calomnie quand on doublait leur n. Ils avaient, d'être les seuls Simonet avec un n au lieu de deux, autant de fierté peut-être que les Montmorency d'être les premiers barons de France.
- Still, it seems that the Simonets never failed, it appeared, to be annoyed by the calumny of anyone doubling the 'n'. They wore the air of being the only Simonets in the world with one 'n' instead of two, and were as proud of it, perhaps, as the Montmorencies were of being the premier barons of France.
- 1864, Rudolf Charles, Preface to Testament by Jean Meslier, page 14
Descendants
- → Romanian: calomnie
Verb
calomnie
- inflection of calomnier:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “calomnie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin calumnia.
Noun
calomnie f (plural calomnies)
- calumny; slander
Descendants
- → English: calumny
- French: calomnie
- → Romanian: calomnie
Romanian
Etymology
From French calomnie.
Noun
calomnie f (plural calomnii)
- slander
Declension
Declension of calomnie
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) calomnie | calomnia | (niște) calomnii | calomniile |
genitive/dative | (unei) calomnii | calomniei | (unor) calomnii | calomniilor |
vocative | calomnie, calomnio | calomniilor |