calumnior

Latin

Alternative forms

• kalumnior

Etymology

From calumnia (“trickery, artifice”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈlum.ni.or/, [käˈɫ̪ʊmniɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈlum.ni.or/, [käˈlumnior]

Verb

calumnior (present infinitive calumniārī, perfect active calumniātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to depreciate, misrepresent, cavil at, calumniate, blame unjustly, blackmail

   calumniare audacter, quia semper aliquid adhæret.
   Slander boldly, for something always sticks. – Johannes Jacobus Manlius, Locorum Communium Collectanea, page 393 (1562)

   Manlius paraphrases Plutarch, who says the following about Medios of Larissa:

   ἐκέλευεν οὖν θαρροῦντας ἅπτεσθαι καὶ δάκνειν ταῖς διαβολαῖς, διδάσκων ὅτι, κἂν θεραπεύσῃ τὸ ἕλκος ὁ δεδηγμένος, ἡ οὐλὴ μένει τῆς διαβολῆς.
   He [Medios] urged people to boldly hold fast and sink in their teeth with their slanders, teaching that even if the bitten may heal the wound, the scar of the slanders remains. – Plut. Adulator, page 17r (c. 100 AD)

2. to contrive tricks, intrigue
3. (law) to accuse falsely, bring false information against someone
4. (law) to practise legal chicanery, trickery, or subterfuge

Conjugation

   Conjugation of calumnior (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	calumnior	calumniāris, calumniāre	calumniātur	calumniāmur	calumniāminī	calumniantur
	imperfect	calumniābar	calumniābāris, calumniābāre	calumniābātur	calumniābāmur	calumniābāminī	calumniābantur
	future	calumniābor	calumniāberis, calumniābere	calumniābitur	calumniābimur	calumniābiminī	calumniābuntur
	perfect	calumniātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	calumniātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	calumniātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	calumnier	calumniēris, calumniēre	calumniētur	calumniēmur	calumniēminī	calumnientur
	imperfect	calumniārer	calumniārēris, calumniārēre	calumniārētur	calumniārēmur	calumniārēminī	calumniārentur
	perfect	calumniātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	calumniātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	calumniāre	—	—	calumniāminī	—
	future	—	calumniātor	calumniātor	—	—	calumniantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		calumniārī	calumniātum esse	calumniātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		calumniāns	calumniātus	calumniātūrus	—	—	calumniandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		calumniandī	calumniandō	calumniandum	calumniandō	calumniātum	calumniātū

Derived terms

• calumniātor

Related terms

• calumnia
• calumniātrīx
• calumniōsē
• calumniōsus

Descendants

• → English: calumniate
• → French: calomnier
  • → Romanian: calomnia
• → Galician: calumniar
• → Italian: calunniare (semi-learned)
• Old French: chalongier, calungier
  • Norman: calengier
  • → English: challenge
• → Portuguese: caluniar
• → Spanish: calumniar

References

• “calumnior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calumnior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calumnior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.