vengiamento

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Italian

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Etymology

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Semi-learned borrowing from Old French vengement (revenge), action noun of vengier (to avenge; to take revenge (upon)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ven.d͡ʒaˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: ven‧gia‧mén‧to

Noun

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vengiamento m (plural vengiamenti) (Old Italian)

  1. revenge, vengeance
    Synonyms: vendetta, vengianza (Old Italian)
    prendere vengiamentoto take revenge
    • 13th century, Pietro della Vigna, [untitled poem], lines 37–38; republished as “Amando com fin core e co' speranza” (chapter 167), in A. D'ancona, D. Comparetti, editors, Le antiche rime volgari secondo la lezione del Codice Vaticano 3793, volume 2, Bologna: Gaetano Romagnoli, 1875:
      No' la posso ucir, nè vengiamento
      Prendere al mio talento
      I cannot kill her [Death], nor can I take revenge at will
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References

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  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “vengiamento”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 21, page 737