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malediction
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French malédiction, from Latin maledicti? (“curse”) from malus (“evil”) + dicti? (“speech”) noun of action from perfect passive participle dictus (“spoken”), from verb d?c? (“speak”).
Noun
malediction (countable and uncountable, plural maledictions)
- A curse.
- Antonym: benediction
- Evil speech.
Related terms
- maledictive
- maledictory
Translations
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anathema
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin anathema (“curse, person cursed, offering”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”), from ????????? (anatíth?mi, “I set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ??? (aná, “upon”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “I put, place”). The Ancient Greek term was influenced by Hebrew ???? (herem), leading to the sense of "accursed," especially in Ecclesiastical writers.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??næ??m?/
- Hyphenation: a?na?the?ma
Noun
anathema (plural anathemas or anathemata)
- (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. [from early 17th c.]
- Synonyms: ban, curse
- (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
- Synonym: bête noire
- (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- 1920, Edwin Alrington /Robinson, The Three Taverns, "The Wandering Jew"
- I trembled at his ringing wealth
- Of manifold anathemas […]
- 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 30:
- 1920, Edwin Alrington /Robinson, The Three Taverns, "The Wandering Jew"
- (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. [from 1520s]
- 1611, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 16:22:
- If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
- 1707, John Locke, An Essay for Understanding St. Paul's Epistles, by Consulting St. Paul Himself, "The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans," Section VIII:
- ???????, accur?ed, ???, which the Septuagint renders Anathema, ?ignifies Per?ons or Things devoted to De?truction and Extermination. The Jewi?h Nation were now an Anathema, de?tin'd to De?truction. St. Paul to expre?s his Affection to them, ?ays, he could wi?h to ?ave them from it, to become an Anathema and be de?troy'd him?elf.
- 1611, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 16:22:
Derived terms
Translations
References
New Advent: The Catholic on-line encyclopedia.
Further reading
- anathema on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?na.t?e.ma/, [ä?nät???mä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?na.te.ma/, [??n??t??m?]
Noun
anathema n (genitive anathematis); third declension
- offering (especially the life of a person)
- curse
- excommunication
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- German: Anathema
References
- anathema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anathema in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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