different between rodomontado vs rodomontade

English

Alternative forms

• rodomantado

Etymology

Partly from Italian rodomontata (with change of suffix), partly an alteration of rodomontade, after -ado. Compare rodomontade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d?m?n?t??d??/

Noun

rodomontado (plural rodomontados or rodomontadoes)

1. A brag or boast; a rodomontade.
   • , II.31:

     I likewise blame those who being angry, will brave and mutinie when the partie with whom they are offended is not by. These Rodomantados must be employed on such as feare them.

English

Alternative forms

• rhodomontade

Etymology

From French rodomontade, a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso. Compare rodomontado.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.d?.m?n?t??d/, /???.d?.m?n?te?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.d?.m?n?te?d/, /???.d??m?n?te?d/, /???.d?.m?n?t?d/, /???.d??m?n?t?d/

Adjective

rodomontade (comparative more rodomontade, superlative most rodomontade)

1. Pretentiously boastful.

Noun

rodomontade (countable and uncountable, plural rodomontades)

1. Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious behaviour.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1963, p. 67:

     He talks of her abroad as a stern and rigid master dealing with a naughty slave, though, by the look that accompanies his rhodomontade, I am convinced that at home he is the very model of "managed men."

   • 1903, Samuel Butler,The Way of All Flesh, ch 46:

     ...Euripides accuses AEschylus of being "pomp-bundle-worded," which I suppose means bombastic and given to rodomontade ...

Translations

Verb

rodomontade (third-person singular simple present rodomontades, present participle rodomontading, simple past and past participle rodomontaded)

1. To boast, brag or bluster pretentiously.