diatriba
Italian
Pronunciation
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.[2]
References
- diatriba in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- “diàtriba o diatrìba?”, in Treccani, La grammatica italiana (in Italian), 2017 May 2 (last accessed)
Further reading
- diatriba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διατριβή (diatribḗ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈa.tri.ba/, [d̪iˈät̪rɪbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈa.tri.ba/, [d̪iˈäːt̪ribä]
Noun
diatriba f (genitive diatribae); first declension
- a learned discussion; a discourse
- (by extension) a school
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | diatriba | diatribae |
Genitive | diatribae | diatribārum |
Dative | diatribae | diatribīs |
Accusative | diatribam | diatribās |
Ablative | diatribā | diatribīs |
Vocative | diatriba | diatribae |
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
Further reading
- “diatriba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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