diatriba

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diatriba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.aˈtri.ba/, /djaˈtri.ba/
  • Rhymes: -iba
  • Hyphenation: di‧a‧trì‧ba, dia‧trì‧ba
• IPA^(key): (traditional) /diˈa.tri.ba/
  • Rhymes: -atriba
  • Hyphenation: di‧à‧tri‧ba

Noun

diatriba f (plural diatribe)

1. debate
2. diatribe
3. (rare) reprimand

Usage notes

• There are two pronunciations: diàtriba (stress on antepenult) and diatrìba (penult, modeled after French diatribe), with the former traditionally preferred since it reflects the original Latin stress pattern.

Further reading

• diatriba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• ibridata, ribadita

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈa.tri.ba/, [d̪iˈät̪rɪbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.tri.ba/, [d̪iˈäːt̪ribä]

Noun

diatriba f (genitive diatribae); first declension

1. a learned discussion; a discourse
2. (by extension) a school

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	diatriba	diatribae
genitive	diatribae	diatribārum
dative	diatribae	diatribīs
accusative	diatribam	diatribās
ablative	diatribā	diatribīs
vocative	diatriba	diatribae

Descendants

• English: diatribe
• Italian: diatriba
• Spanish: diatriba

References

• “diatriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diatriba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French diatribe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaˈtɾiba/ [d̪jaˈt̪ɾi.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: dia‧tri‧ba

Noun

diatriba f (plural diatribas)

1. diatribe

Further reading

• “diatriba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10